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 | | However, because we get freezing temperatures during the winter, it always dies back to the base, which, in the two oldest plants, has become a large, curled-up ball, like the trunk of a deformed tree. |
 | | There are large trees that grow in frost-free areas of Florida that have the same leaves and blossoms and are called cock-spur (because of their nasty little backwards pointing thorns on each leaf), coral, or flame coral trees. |
 | | Besides hummingbirds, many other creatures are attracted to the coral trees, including predators such as spiders and praying mantises, who are lured by the many insects visiting the flowers. |
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