Fruit and Spice Park to stay an active garden club member and develop insights on the different fruits that should be planted until she passed away in 1979. In memory of her and Preston B. Bird, South Date County renamed the Redland Fruit and Spice Park to the Preston B. Bird & Mary Heinlein Fruit and Spice Park in 1980. The park contains more than 500 varieties of fruits, nuts, and spice trees. It also includes more than 80 banana trees, 160 varieties of mango trees, more than 40 varieties of grape trees, and 70 varieties of bamboo trees. It also features guava, jackfruit,
Greater short-nosed fruit bat fruit bat is found from Pakistan to Vietnam. It is common in tropical forests and areas where fruit crops are cultivated. They can also be found in grasslands and mangrove forests. They typically nest high in palm trees. The bats chew the fronds of the palms to construct fairly simple tents. These bats are also known to construct tents by closely interweaving the leaves and twigs of creeping vines which cover buildings, but such nests are constructed only when palms are not available. The greater short-nosed fruit bat is gregarious, and typically roosts in same-sex groups of eight to nine