This hedge in Vero's Royal Palm neighborhood still has its viburnums (the common species you see all over Brevard).  This neighborhood was built out of an oak hammock, so there's plenty of wild coffee plants around.  Thanks to birds, coffee seeds arrived in the nice, shady area under the hedge.  Now, the hedge is mostly wild coffee. 

Nice hedge.

Darker, rounded-tip leaves are viburnum and yellowish leaves with conspicuous veins are wild coffee.  So are the red fruits toward the left.

Just for contrast, here's a thriving American elm with young fruit (sort of seeds-with-gliding capacity), same neighborhood.  See, you can have both an elm and a croton.

Back to bodysnatching, the big green "bush" near the top of this old laurel oak is mistletoe, a parasite in the sense that it draws water from the tree's vascular system and also interlinks with the phloem tissue.  But it obviously manufactures most of its own food.  Don't know if it gives enough back to pay rent to its host. Would be nice if it did--I think the mistletoe has a stake in having a healthy host. 

Closer look.  You can see a bunch of smaller mistletoes on the left.

Being Vero, palms are mandatory.  Spindle (Hyophorbe verschaffeltii) at the Community Center.   These palms get much bigger--I'll post a photo of one at Heathcote Gardens when I have one that's worth posting.  Several youhger spindles nearby suffered some leaf damage in December.  This one got through the cold in pretty good shape.  

A happy clump of Arenga engleri  from near the elm and hedge.