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Florida Fishpoison Tree, Jamaican Dogwood

Piscidia piscipula
Fabaceae

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Description

Wunderlin, R. P., B. F. Hansen, A. R. Franck, and F. B. Essig. 2024. Atlas of Florida Plants (http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/). [S. M. Landry and K. N. Campbell (application development), USF Water Institute.] Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, Tampa.

Native to the Caribbean region, the root bark has been employed to poison and catch fish (Hamilton 1832). The primary constituents are flavonoid derivaties, i.e. piscidone, piscerythrone, ichthynone, and rotenone (Ingham et al. 1989).

References

Wunderlin, R. P., B. F. Hansen, A. R. Franck, and F. B. Essig. 2024. Atlas of Florida Plants (http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/). [S. M. Landry and K. N. Campbell (application development), USF Water Institute.] Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, Tampa.