Distribution
Roystonea regia is found in southern Florida, north-central and south-east Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Cuba, the Cayman Islands and The Bahamas. It has been planted throughout the tropics and subtropics as an ornamental tree.
William Bartram described the species from Lake Dexter, along the St. Johns River in the area of modern Lake and Volusia Counties in central Florida, an area well north of its modern range. The reason for its contraction in range is uncertain—it has been suggested that a severe freeze in 1835 and 1894–95 eliminated northern populations, or that land clearing by settlers eliminated most populations of the tree.
Read more about this topic: Roystonea Regia
Famous quotes containing the word distribution:
“The man who pretends that the distribution of income in this country reflects the distribution of ability or character is an ignoramus. The man who says that it could by any possible political device be made to do so is an unpractical visionary. But the man who says that it ought to do so is something worse than an ignoramous and more disastrous than a visionary: he is, in the profoundest Scriptural sense of the word, a fool.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“My topic for Army reunions ... this summer: How to prepare for war in time of peace. Not by fortifications, by navies, or by standing armies. But by policies which will add to the happiness and the comfort of all our people and which will tend to the distribution of intelligence [and] wealth equally among all. Our strength is a contented and intelligent community.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)