Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys

Scientific Name:
Common Name(s):
Ardisia elliptica
Shoebutton ardisia
Height:
Leaves:
Flowers:
Bark:
Fruit:
Other:
A shrub or small tree to 15 ft
Leathery, lance shaped leaves ranging from 3 to 6 inches long. New growth
is rosy-pink
Small five petaled pinkish flowers are borne in clusters in the leaf axils and
appear in the summer and sporadically throughout the year
Clusters of small pink fruit the ripen almost black
Treatment:
Basal treatment with Garlon 4 and oil at 10%
Identification & Biology of Non-Native
Plants in Florida’s Natural Areas by
K.A Langeland, K. Craddock Burks
www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/derm/badplants.htm
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