2024年8月1日 · High bluffs overlooking the Apalachicola River make Torreya one of Florida's most scenic places. Developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, Torreya is popular for camping, hiking and picnicking.

Torreya is a genus of conifers comprising six or seven species placed in the family Taxaceae, though sometimes formerly placed in Cephalotaxaceae. [2][3][4][5] Four species are native to eastern Asia; the other two are native to North America. They are small to medium-sized evergreen trees reaching 5–20 m, rarely 25 m, tall.

Torreya State Park is a 13,735 acre (56 km 2) Florida State Park, United States National Natural Landmark and historic site thirteen miles (19 km) north of Bristol. It is located north of S.R 12 on the Apalachicola River, in northwestern Florida (Florida Panhandle), at …

One of the world's rarest and oldest known trees grows among the bluffs and ravines of Gadsden and Liberty Counties. The Florida Torreya was discovered here in around 1835 by Hardy Bryan Croom, an early botanist.

Torreya taxifolia, commonly known as Florida torreya or stinking-cedar, but also sometimes as Florida nutmeg or gopher wood, is an endangered subcanopy tree of the yew family, Taxaceae. It is native to only a small glacial refugium in the southeastern United States, at the state border region of northern Florida and southwestern Georgia. [8]

2025年1月19日 · One of the original Florida state parks, opened to the public in 1935, the 13,000-acre expanse felt more like Georgia or North Carolina with its high plateaus, steep ravines, waterfalls, and...

One of the most rugged hikes in Florida, the Torreya Hiking Trail treats you to an scenic landscape of ravines and bluffs rising 300 feet above the Apalachicola River. Named after an extremely rare tree found only along the bluffs of the Apalachicola River, Torreya State Park is a hiker’s paradise.

Torreya is an evergreen shrub or tree in the yew family with 2 being native to North America and 4 being native to Asia. They grow 16 to 65 feet tall and can be either monoecious or dioecious. When monoecious, the pollen and seed cones are on different branches.

In addition to devastating regional towns and cities, the Hurricane blasted through Torreya State Park — the last stronghold of one of the world's most threatened conifer trees: Florida torreya (Torreya taxifolia).

Torreya is an interesting and not unattractive genus whose members can form tall, single-stemmed trees, but are often seen as somewhat scruffy bushes of no particular merit. The large, green plum-shaped fruits are a surprising feature in autumn.