Gopher Apple – Wild Weeds

Licania michauxii

Gopher apple is a low-growing woody shrub that aptly received it’s name since as an important food source for gopher tortoises. The fruit is also edible to humans but virtually tasteless. You’ll find this plant occurring in Florida sandhills, pine and scrubby flatwoods, scrub, coastal dunes, and pine rocklands.

Blooms typically appear spring through summer but can be present year-round. Flowers are small, creamy white. Leaves are leathery, stiff, and oblong with fine but obvious venation.

Learn more about the plant characteristics here: https://www.flawildflowers.org/flower-friday-licania-michauxii/

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