seeds obtained from living trees are being grown and planted in the ravine habitat at Torreya State Park. Though the torreya tree is usually the draw, Brown considers the Florida yew important to ...

The park, created by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression, is named after the rare, endangered torreya tree found only on the high bluffs along the Apalachicola River.

According to Brown, Hurricane Michael damaged 80 percent of the park’s namesake trees, but through a project with the Florida Park Service and Atlanta Botanical Garden, seeds obtained from living ...