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Goodbye to our Gumbo Limbo 

August 13, 2026
By Staff Report

Last week, the Gumbo Limbo tree on the 5th Street median just before Gasparilla Road, was toppled by an afternoon storm. Arborist Rick Joyce, president of Forestry Resources Ecological Inc., said in an interview for the Gasparilla Magazine that the sap from the tree – or its “gum” – is the source of many of […]

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