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Gopher apple
Geobalanus oblongifolius
Licania michauxii, commonly known as gopher apple, is an evergreen shrub. It grows in the sandhills of peninsular Florida as well as coastal Mississippi and Georgia. Its fruit is eaten by wildlife and is being used in cancer research. The fruit is a food source for the gopher tortoise.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 860746.