Plant Biologists of South Florida

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  • DOT plant “diversity”

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    Phil Busey
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    Promoting their professional qualifications for the job, Florida DOT design consultants talked about “development of native landscapes” in their projects. So here is what we got in the $1.8 billion I-595 improvement in Broward County—a solid monoculture of hundreds of plants of the same species, Capparis cynophallophora, Jamaica caper, pruned square as board. Go down…