The Gumbo Limbo Trail in Everglades National Park is a serene and informative nature trail that meanders through a hardwood hammock ecosystem. Visitors can explore the lush tropical hammock and ...

How many of you have visited Everglades National Park in southern Florida? Were you amazed at the plethora of plant and ...

And while a large part of the Everglades is covered in razor-sharp sawgrass, the region also encompasses mangroves, tropical hardwood hammocks (island forests), pine and cypress forests ...

jungle-like hammocks—tree islands—and the largest living mahogany tree in the country. But the best place to photograph the Everglades may be on the water trails at Flamingo and the Gulf Coast ...

The strangler fig, or Ficus aurea, is one of the most interesting trees in a North American Everglades tropical hardwood hammock. Strangler figs, sometimes called golden fig are native to south ...

For decades, this family "hammock" – as the tree-covered islands that poke out from the Everglades are known – has been their retreat; a place where the family can camp, cook and hunt.