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Figure 10. The Jamaica dogwood (Florida Fishfuddle tree) (Piscidia communis) grows up to 50 feet high and up to three feet in diameter. The fruit is a four-winged pod, three or four inches long. Natives of the Caribbean made a poison from the bark of the roots, leaves, and young branches, which stupified fish so they could be picked out of the water (from Fla. Div. of Forestry, 1980).
Figure 11. The Pigeon Plum (Pigeon Seagrape) (Coccolobis floridana) grows to heights of 70 feet, with trunks up to two feet in diameter. The fruit is a dark red to black berry about one-third inch long (from Fla. Div. of Forestry, 1980).