TREES TO PLANT NEAR THE OCEAN 
CLUSIA 
CLUSIA (C. rosea). For big smooth 
spatulate leaves, nothing is more striking 
than this West Indian shore tree to 40 
feet. It resists salt spray and high winds 
and its 4-inch white flowers with pink 
halo center are beautiful. It is a heavy, 
dense shade tree for exposed positions, 
much in demand as a tub and patio plant 
because of its magnificent bold foliage. 
MADAGASCAR OLIVE (Noronhia 
emarginata). A pretty, small evergreen 
tree from Madagascar with broad spatu- 
late gray-green leaves that resist salt spray 
and make it an excellent subject for sea- 
side planting. The attractive rose-purple 
flowers are followed by round, yellowish- 
green fruits. There is a good deal of vari- 
Btn in these, and some of them are dis- 
tinctly good eating. My trees were grown 
from seed sent from Hawaii by Otto Deg- 
ener, of the staff of the New York Bo- 
tanical Garden. 
"KAMANI (Calophyllum inophyllum). 
“This beautiful cosmopolitan tree,” wrote 
Rock, “always near or at the seashore (in 
Hawaii), reaches a height of 50-60 feet 
or more.” It is a slender Malayan ever- 
green with magnificent shining deep green 
spatulate leaves that are not bothered by 
salt spray. The l-inch white flowers, 
borne in stiff, erect 6-inch clusters in leaf 
axils, have a fr: agrance “perhaps the sweet- 
est of any Malayan tree,” Corner says. 
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The flowering lasts about two weeks, in 
February and again in August. Benthall 
says “this beautiful evergreen tree is much 
used in India for planting on roadsides 
and in avenues.” Growing on the seashore, 
it gets wind-twisted and picturesque. 
SEAGRAPE (Ccccolobis wvifera). 
Common as this evergreen big shrub or 
tree is along Florida’s coastline, you would 
hardly expect to find it here, but in recent 
years the tree is being sought out for its 
crooked ornamental growth (wanted in 
certain types of garden) and its beautiful 
leathery leaves and fruit (useful in some 
arrangements). The white or yellowish- 
green flowers are inconspicuous. 
OCHROSIA 
OCHROSIA (O. elliptica). The South 
Pacific furnishes this small evergreen tree, 
which is one of my favorites because it is 
covered all winter with lacquer-red alm- 
ond-shaped fruits that contrast beautifully 
with the deep green foliage and make the 
tree a conspicuous object on the land- 
scape. Erroneously called “kopsia” by 
many persons who fail to realize there 
really are such things as Kopsia trees, the 
Ochrosia does well near the ocean because 
its leaves resist salt spray. 
