Tropical Zone Gardening: What is the botanical name of this plant?, 1 by ardesia

ardesia wrote:
St.Helena is one of many barrier islands along the SE coast. Hilton Head Island, a bit south of us is the fancy resort community around here. St. Helena has a few gated communities but It is still a largely rural, farming community. We are surrounded by rivers that are really inlets since they are all salt and miles and miles of creeks. There are many, sort of exotic, jungle like places around here but you can't always see them. You'll find the tastiest shrimp and crabs here. While it is not a fancy upscale island in general and there are a lot of very poor people but we are all rich in natural resouces here.

Not the best photo but I took it last night and it was easy to find. LOL This was the back yard last evening. The tide is not always this high, sometimes we just have a view of marsh grass with the river in the distance.