There are many flowering shrubs and trees either in bloom or just beginning to bloom right now around Southwest Florida.

And at the corner of Coffee Pot Boulevard and 23rd Avenue Northeast, people stopped to gawk and snap photos in front of a beloved pink trumpet tree in full bloom. Also known as a Tabebuia tree ...

The styrax best suited for the mounting of diatoms is obtained from the Oriental sweet gum tree (Liquid-ambar orientalis). This tree is native to the southwestern portion of Asia Minor.