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Beauty , Beaches , and Bajans

ebony, clammy cherry, calabash, West Indian almond, willow lavender, pop-a-gun, and sandbox trees. Fruit trees, such as mango, coconut, guava, and cherry trees, grow on Barbados. Unusual kinds of apples, such as the star apple, the golden apple, and the sugar apple, can also be found on the island. Mangrove forests grow along the coasts, providing homes to sponges, corals, oysters, fish, lobsters, and many kinds of nesting birds. Flowers thrive on Barbados, and many different kinds of orchids grow on the island; many are on display at Orchid World in St. George Valley. The national flower is the Pride of Barbados, or Caesal pinia pulchermia , a red flower with yellow borders. Over the years Europeans brought other unusual trees to the island. These include the mahogany, the tamarind, the casuarinas, the cabbage

The Crane Beach Hotel, built in 1887, was the first resort on Barbados. It can be found at one of the island’s most attractive spots.