Word: equisetifolia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often true, the incursion of aliens was abetted and, in some cases, initiated by well-intentioned but misguided horticulturists. When the Australian pine (Casuarina equisetifolia) gained a foothold in Florida around 1920, landscapers adopted it as a windbreak and hedge. Casuarina rapidly established itself at the edges of canal banks and natural waterways; along the southwest coast of the 1.5 million-acre Everglades National Park, the pine's shallow roots are now so dense that they are destroying the sandy beaches on which the threatened loggerhead sea turtle lays its eggs...
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