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
Correspondence
(Funding) Electronic format produced as part of Reclaiming the Everglades, a collaborative project of the University of Miami, Florida International University, and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, funded by the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Program.; (Biographical) The air potatoes, a vine, has become an invasive exotic plant in the Everglades.; From the Minnie Moore-Willson papers.
1923
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