Habitat
Very little remains of central Florida's once vast upland ecosystems. Agribusiness and unplanned, sprawling commercial development in central and south Florida, along with inadequate conservation and regulatory programs, have decimated Florida's ecosystems and pushed hundreds of native plant and animals species to the brink of extinction. Florida's ecosystems and vegetative communities have been so completely disrupted, and so much genetic diversity lost, that many formerly widespread and common plants are probably "genetically" extinct, and incapable of adapting and surviving as part of a functioning ecosystem.
Ziziphus celata is listed as an endangered species in the United States.
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“Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.”
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