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tigersfoot

Please suggest a TREE

19 years ago

I'm looking to buy a fast growing tree that has the following characteristics:

1. will grow in the Bahamas

2. likes to have its feet wet - the place I will plant floods about twice per year

3. will grow to around 15 ft tall or more

4. has a single trunk

5. has a broad circumferance of foliage at the top to hide the building that will be built behind my house.

of course being pretty, flowering and easy to maintain are major pluses also. I've been recommended the Portia (Florida mahoe) already, but am concerned that this is a little too bushy...

any advice from you gardening guru's would be appreciated. thanks.

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