Fruit and Spice Park
Botanical garden in Redland, Miami
A 37-acre tropical botanical garden with over 500 varieties of edible fruits, nuts, and spices.
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What to see
- A mango grove featuring approximately 180 varieties from around the world.
- Ethnobotanical collections grouped by geographic regions across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
- Diverse plantings of tropical fruiting trees, including jackfruit, sapodilla, and avocado.
- Extensive living collections of over 70 types of bamboo and numerous banana cultivars.
- The herb and spice garden displaying plants cultivated for traditional culinary, aromatic, and practical uses.
Plants you can see here
- Mango Mangifera indica
- Jackfruit Artocarpus heterophyllus
- Sapodilla Manilkara zapota
- Black sapote Diospyros nigra
- Avocado Persea americana
- Wax jambu Syzygium samarangense
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Sources
- Fruit & Spice Park - Miami-Dade County
- miamidade.gov
- miamidade.gov
- youtube.com
- miamidade.gov
- floridarambler.com
- miamidade.gov
- miamimomsgroup.com
Written from these sources and checked against them by a reviewer model.
Nearby plant places
Castellow Hammock Preserve & Nature Center
A mature tropical hardwood hammock on ancient karst limestone with native pollinator plantings.
Hattie Bauer Hammock Preserve
A historic tropical hardwood hammock harboring rare solution-hole ferns and pioneer-era stone ruins.
Seminole Wayside Park
A rare preserve protecting over 21 acres of critically imperiled pine rockland and endangered flora.
Pine Island Nursery
A long-running Redland nursery dedicated to tropical fruit trees, rare exotics, and culinary spices.
Black Creek Linear Park
A canal-side trail lined with palms and subtropical vegetation stretching toward Biscayne Bay.
Larry and Penny Thompson Memorial Park
Rare remnant pine rocklands and historic tropical fruit groves along the Miami Rock Ridge.
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