But at the Fruit & Spice Park, a botanical garden in Homestead, Florida, I came across a ... to point out a staggering variety of tropical-fruit plants: breadfruit, carambola, dragonfruit ...

Today, estimates say that the Burmese python is present in more than a thousand square miles of southern Florida, reaching from coast to coast. From the Everglades ... mostly in trees, as they ...

The invasive snake was first recorded in the Everglades National Park in 1979 and quickly put a stranglehold on Florida's wildlife. Burmese pythons can swim, burrow and climb trees, and they eat ...