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National Champion Silver Buttonwood (Button-mangrove) Conocarpus erectus Key West Golf Course Key West, Florida Circumference = 93 inches (7.75 feet) Height = 45 feet Average Crown Spread = 40 feet Total Points = 148 Cloned: 1998 by: Terry Mock

The Silver Buttonwood is a variant of the Green Buttonwood valued by nurserymen and landscapers for its soft white leaf hairs that impart a silvery shine to its leaves, especialy when they flutter in a breeze.

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TERRA: The Earth Restoration and Reforestation Alliance — www.championtrees.org — updated 8/14/2003