Caroline Islands
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Fig. 5. Grove of Cordia trees with Tournefortia in the in the foreground. Long Island supports several dense groves of Cordia subcordata under which a thin leaf layer and several inches of dark humus were found. Fig. 6. The north portion of Long Island as seen from the south point of Nake Island. In the middle of the land mass are groves of Cordia and Pisonia with a dense fringing cover of Tournefortia argentea.