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Weedon Island
Green Space
A little bit of History
•
How did Weedon Island get its
name?
•
What businesses were here in the
past?
Station 2: BOARDWALK BEGINS
• You are leaving the high ridge of limestone (calcium
carbonate) and the upland ecosystem of slash pines,
palm trees, willows, and saltbush.
• These are the plants we saw.
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As the high ridge slopes down to the wetlands, the ecosystem changes
to mangroves, mosquito ditches, and mud holes for fiddler crabs.
Station 2
Station 3:
MUDDY OPENING TO THE RIGHT
• Look for the “sticks” in the
mud. These are the
pneumatophores of the black
mangroves. They allow air to
get down to the roots of these
trees so they can grow in the
wetland.
• Black mangroves are salt
excreters. They take in the salt
water and excrete the salt out
through their leaves. This salt
gives the leaves a dull look.
The saltier the water; the duller
the leaves.
•Only black mangroves
•have pneumatophores.
Station 4:
PURPLE BERRIES ON RIGHT
• These purple berries are from
a native bush called beauty
berry. Wildlife love the berries,
but they are very poisonous to
man. Some of the scat of the
raccoons is on the boardwalk.
You can see they eat a lot of
these berries.
• Beauty berries are not wetland
plants. They are growing
because of a man-made
“island” from when the
boardwalk was built. Wherever
high ground appears, native
plants for high ground have
grown.