This website is created for the St George Village Botanical Garden, St Croix, USVI.
It is primarily a study, photographically documenting the phenology (timing of key seasonal events in the life cycle) of a selection of shrubs and trees growing in The Garden in support of Level II accreditation under the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program. The Garden achieved Level II Accreditation on July 30, 2025.
In the list below, the 100 species submitted for Level II Accreditation are in Bold.
You are welcome to visit this site and enjoy the beauty of the plants of The Garden.
On each of the species pages, POWO Status: refers to the classification given by Kew Gardens Plants of the World Online database: https://powo.science.kew.org/. Also, IUCN Red List threat level: refers to the threat level assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species: https://www.iucnredlist.org/
Plants
- Achiote tree
- African Oil Palm
- African Tulip
- Arabian Lilac
- Autograph Tree
- Banyan tree
- Baobab tree
- Bauhinia tree
- Bay Rum tree
- Bayahibe Rose
- Bitter Ash
- Black Mampoo
- Black Olive tree
- Black Pearl
- Blue Latan Palm
- Brazilian Raintree
- Bread and Cheese
- Breadfruit tree
- Breakbill
- Bunchberry or Black Cherry
- Buttonwood
- Buxus Vahlii
- Cadaghi
- Calabash tree
- Cannonball tree
- Caribbean Royal Palm
- Casearia
- Cashew tree
- Chasteberry
- Chenile
- Cherry Palm
- Christmas Palm
- Cigar Box Cedar
- Cobana Negra
- Coccothrinax clarensis
- Cock’s Spur
- Coconut Palm
- Cogshall Mango
- Corkscrew Tree
- Cow Itch Cherry
- Creeping-Oxeye
- Date Palm
- Desert Cassia
- Divi Divi
- Dog Almond
- Doum Palm
- Falla Palm
- False Mastic
- Fiji Fan Palm
- Fish Poison
- Flamboyant tree
- Florida Fiddlewood
- Florida Thatch Palm
- Frangipani
- Genip tree
- Ginger Thomas
- Golden Apple
- Grand Leaf Sea Grape tree
- Guatemalan Ponytail Palm
- Haiti-Haiti
- Hispaniola Silver Thatch Palm
- Hogplum tree
- Honduras Mahogany
- Indian Mallow
- Inkberry tree
- Ironwood
- Jamaica Caper
- Japanese Yew
- Java Plum tree
- Julie Mango
- Kapok tree
- Lady of the Night
- MacArthur Palm
- Macaw Palm
- Mango tree
- Maran Bush
- Marron Bacora
- Mastic
- Melochia
- Mesple tree
- Mexican Fan Palm
- Miconia
- Moringa
- Narra / India Padauk
- Neem
- Nile Tulip
- Noni
- Orange Manjack
- Pengua
- Peregrina
- Physic Nut
- Pigeon Berry
- Pink Cedar
- Pink Shower
- Pomegranate
- Portlandia tree
- Pride of Barbados
- Pride of India
- Puerto Rican Hat Palm
- Puerto Rican Hibiscus tree
- Puerto Rican Royal Palm
- Puerto Rican Zamia
- Pygmy Date Palm
- Rainbow Eucalyptus tree
- Rat Wood
- Raw Bone
- Red Geiger
- Red Manjack
- Royal Palm
- Sabal Palm
- Saman tree
- Sandbox tree
- Sausage tree
- Scarlet Bottlebrush
- Screw Pine
- Sea Grape tree
- Senna
- Shower of Gold tree
- Siamese Cassia
- Silver Palm
- Skyflower
- Snow on the Mountain
- Soursop
- Southern Chinese Hats
- Southern Live Oak
- Spotted Leaf Fig
- Strangler Fig tree
- Sugar Palm
- Swartz’s Pigeonplum
- Sweet Acacia
- Sweet Almond Verbena
- Swordbush
- Tamarind tree
- Teke Spurge
- Texas Palm
- Toddy Palm
- Torchwood
- Tree Lily
- Tropical Lilythorn
- Trumpetwood
- Turpentine tree
- Tyre Palm
- Variegated Mahoe
- Violet Tree
- West Indian Mahogany
- West Indian Satinwood tree (Zanthoxylum flavum)
- White Crepe Myrtle
- White Prickle tree
- Wild Almond tree
- Wild Cinnamon tree
- Woodbury’s Stopper
- Yellow Poinciana
- Ylang Ylang tree
