Torreya taxifolia Arn.

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  Florida

• County/Municipio

  Gadsden Co.

• City/Township

  Chattahoochee

• Coordinates

  30.7052, -84.843

• Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

  3861

• Georeferencing Method

  GEOLocate Web Application. Used the GEOLocate Web Application to georeference to the city center.

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

JACKSON VILI
;hicola
GAINESVILLE.
Reprinted from Science, October 22, 1926, Vol. LXIV,
No. 1660, page 405.
1 PROTECTION OF THE TUMION IN FLORIDA
Our national monuments should be protected be-
fore it is too late. Laek of a state forestry policy
and the rapid disappearance of so much natural
beauty in many states are already causing much
alarm. Beautiful sights along lakes and mountains
are denuded, and our immense forests are destroyed
for the lumber trade, without any attempt to renew
them on a technical basis. These facts are known
throughout the world. Quite recently the Count of
Schwerin and Freiherr von Thielmann, both in Ber-
lin, have drawn attention to this fact to foresters and
scientists in European countries. They stressed the
disappearance of the beautiful forests in the United
States.
It becomes of international importance when cer-
tain forest species become extinct. Such a forest is
found along the bluffs on the east bank of the Apa-
lachicola River from Chattahoochee to Bristol in tne
northwestern part of Florida. Along a distance of
hardly seven miles we find some extremely rare
trees, namely, Tumion taxifolium Greene and Taxus
floridana Chapm. Both are coniferous trees; the
former reaches a height of 30 to 40 feet and the
latter becomes rarely 25 feet high. No doubt both
are relicts of ages long past, when a considerable
part of the country was covered with these and per-
haps other related species.
When the glacial periods came over a large por-
tion of this country and over Europe and Asia, the
geographical distribution of these plants was gradu-
ally pushed back to some protected and favorable
areas along the Apalachicola River. These rare trees
are generally used in this region as Christmas
trees
WOODED HILLS, RIVER JUNCTION
Collector, J. K. Small
December 11, 1917
________JL—k...__
NEW YORK BOTANICAL QAROEN
00009478
THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
EXPLORATION OF FLORIDA
C Wc« ftcv UcU ç.
00009478