Coccoloba uvifera - Seagrape takes its common name from its coastal home and the clusters of red, grape-like fruits it produces. Though not true grapes, these fruits are edible and the taste is often compared to muscadine grapes.

Seagrape is beautiful and tasty, but like our native mangroves, it is also protected. As part of a larger effort to preserve Florida’s coastal ecological communities, the Department of Environmental Protection protects native salt-tolerant and endangered plant communities. Florida law states that no person, firm, corporation, or governmental agency shall damage or cause to be damaged sand dunes or the vegetation growing on the dune system