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The New York Stock Exchange was started in 1792 by a group of twenty-four stockbrokers who met outdoors under a buttonwood tree.
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Lynn Martin, President Of The New York Stock Exchange, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2025
Plants like the buttonwood mangrove, a frontline tree in these shorefront forests, are priorities.
—Noah Lederman, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2024
The outdoor lounge and a two-car driveway is surrounded by groomed landscaping requiring minimal watering, including geiger trees with tangerine-colored flowers, silver buttonwood, and coontie palm, what early Groveites used to grow to boil and eat as their starch.
—Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024
Over the decades, working with an art director, the owner planted numerous mahogany and buttonwood trees, as well as the hundreds and hundreds of orchids that give Orchid Cove its name.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2024
Native gardening When revamping the home’s gardens, the team at Lang Design Group skipped the tall boxwoods seen throughout Florida in favor of more earth-friendly native plants, like buttonwood trees and colorful orchids.
—Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 23 Feb. 2023
Choose from gumbo limbo, jackfruit, silver buttonwood and soursop (two trees per household and one fruit tree maximum).
—Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2023
That's about the same market capitalization as the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange, which is the largest stock exchange in the world and was famously started under a buttonwood tree in 1792.
—Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2021
Trading, whether under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street in the 18th century or in a New Jersey data center in the 21st, has always been about making quick calculations.
—John Detrixhe, Quartz, 23 Sep. 2019
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Lynn Martin, President Of The New York Stock Exchange, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2025
Plants like the buttonwood mangrove, a frontline tree in these shorefront forests, are priorities.
—Noah Lederman, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2024
The outdoor lounge and a two-car driveway is surrounded by groomed landscaping requiring minimal watering, including geiger trees with tangerine-colored flowers, silver buttonwood, and coontie palm, what early Groveites used to grow to boil and eat as their starch.
—Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024
Over the decades, working with an art director, the owner planted numerous mahogany and buttonwood trees, as well as the hundreds and hundreds of orchids that give Orchid Cove its name.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2024
Native gardening When revamping the home’s gardens, the team at Lang Design Group skipped the tall boxwoods seen throughout Florida in favor of more earth-friendly native plants, like buttonwood trees and colorful orchids.
—Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 23 Feb. 2023
Choose from gumbo limbo, jackfruit, silver buttonwood and soursop (two trees per household and one fruit tree maximum).
—Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2023
That's about the same market capitalization as the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange, which is the largest stock exchange in the world and was famously started under a buttonwood tree in 1792.
—Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2021
Trading, whether under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street in the 18th century or in a New Jersey data center in the 21st, has always been about making quick calculations.
—John Detrixhe, Quartz, 23 Sep. 2019
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“Buttonwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buttonwood. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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