Eladio Fernandez / Gumbo Limbo tree (Bursera simaruba) growing on karst substrate, Cienaga de Zapata, UNESCO Biospehere Reserve, Cuba.

Pete Oxford / Gumbo Limbo (Bursera simaruba) tree, Banco Chinchorro, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Alan Watson / Male bark anole lizard (Anolis distichus) displaying bright orange dewlap to another lizard on the trunk of an almacigo tree (Bursera simaruba) in tropical rainforest, Los Haitises National Park, Domi...

Scott Leslie / Gumbo Limbo (Bursera simaruba) trees surround Gumbo Limbo Trail, Everglades National Park, Florida

Jack Dykinga / Servilletta Canyon's walls with Gumbo Limbo (Bursera simaruba) trees, bromeliads (Bromeliad sp), agaves (Agave sp) and Prickly pear cacti (Opuntia sp). Tamaulipas, Mexico

Jack Dykinga / Close up of the curled bark of a Gumbo limbo tree (Bursera simaruba), El Cielo foothills, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Gumbo Limbo (Bursera simaruba) bark peeling off trunk, Palo Verde National Park, Costa Rica