Helicopters in melaleuca control plot
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Melaleuca control sample plot tally in broadcast area
Melaleuca stumps with herbicides
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Melaleuca control site #1391; Isolated site in East Everglades
Photographs of plants approximately 1913-1934 / collected and captioned by Gifford.
Gifford introduced the cajupet melaleuca to Florida in 1906, when he planted seeds from Cuba at Davie (The tree is native to Australia). Melaleucas were intended to help reclaim lands by absorbing water and drying wetlands.
1934
John Gifford inspecting a melaleuca branch, Davie, June 4, 1938.
Gifford introduced melaleucas to South Florida, to drain Everglades wetlands; (Funding) Electronic reproduction. Miami, Fla. : Reclaiming the Everglades, c2000. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. Digitized from photograph at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Miami, Florida.
1938
Dense thicket of young melaleuca
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: East Everglades- early stages of melaleuca invasion; Sept. 78
Melaleuca with brown leaves
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Chemical treatment of aquatic weeds in L-67; 11-30-78
Small stand of young melaleucas
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: 3/79; Melaleuca
A Bibliography of Schinus, Melaleuca, and Casuarina Exotic Genera in South Florida
(Issuing Body) SuDoc number: I 29.95: T-682
1982-11
The functionality of Melaleuca-dominated wetlands in South Florida
TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM
(WRE #338); April 1996
1996-04
