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They are dominated by spiny black olive ( Bucida molinetii), but Swietenia mahagoni and Cedrela odorata also grow within them. Before cooling off in the cave’s waters, walk or ride a horse along one of the parks paved paths and experience its mangrove swamps, rocky coppice landscape and singular hardwood forest. These forests are often flooded at high tide. Located east of Freeport over on Grand Bahama Island, Lucayan is an ecological treasure, playing host to all six of Bahamas’ vegetation zones.
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Rocky coppice occurs on limestone outcroppings between mangroves and pineyards. Shaded by the canopy, plants such as satin leaf ( Chrysophyllum oliviforme), Spanish stopper ( Eugenia foetida), Bahama wild coffee ( Psychotria ligustrifolia), Bahama strongbark ( Bourreria succulenta), night-scented orchid ( Epidendrum nocturnum), wormvine orchid ( Vanilla barbellata), and potbelly airplant ( Tillandsia paucifolia) grow in the understory. Trees found within them include West Indian mahogany ( Swietenia mahagoni), wild tamarind ( Lysiloma latisiliquum), red cedar ( Cedrela odorata), false mastic ( Sideroxylon foetidissimum), horseflesh ( Lysiloma sabicu), pigeon plum ( Coccoloba diversifolia), Jamaican dogwood ( Piscidia piscipula), gumbo-limbo ( Bursera simaruba), and lancewood ( Nectandra coriacea). For this reason some blackland coppice exists on hills entirely surrounded by forests of Caribbean pine ( Pinus caribaea var. Blackland coppice īlackland coppice covers the interior of many of the islands, usually in elevated regions. The understory features snake bark ( Colubrina arborescens) as well as cacti such as erect prickly pear ( Opuntia stricta), Turk's cap cactus ( Melocactus intortus), queen of the night ( Selenicereus grandiflorus), and robin tree cactus ( Pilosocereus polygonus). Trees that grow in whiteland coppices include cinnecord ( Acacia choriophylla), brasiletto ( Caesalpinia vesicaria), haulback tree ( Mimosa bahamensis), autograph tree ( Clusia rosea), manchineel tree ( Hippomane mancinella), West Indian mahogany ( Swietenia mahagoni), sea grape ( Coccoloba uvifera), gumbo-limbo ( Bursera simaruba), cabbage palmetto ( Sabal palmetto), and poisonwood ( Metopium toxiferum). These original forests with canopies of over 50 feet in height have long vanished and modem day coppice is secondary, or even tertiary growth. The Blackland Coppice is made of the same trees that greeted Columbus: mahogany, horse esh, mastic and cedar.
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Vegetation occurring in whiteland coppice is able to withstand salt spray and rocky, calcareous soil. There are basically two types of coppice in The Bahamas Blackland Coppice and Whiteland Coppice. Whiteland coppices are shrubby forests that occur near the ocean.