Piscidia piscipula: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Piscidia
- Species
- Piscidia piscipula
- Scientific Name
- Piscidia piscipula
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Piscidia piscipula
Piscidia piscipula, commonly named Florida fishpoison tree, Jamaican dogwood, or fishfuddle, is a medium-sized, deciduous, tropical tree in the Fabaceae family. It is native to the Greater Antilles (except Puerto Rico), extreme southern Florida (primarily the Florida Keys) and the Bahamas, and the coastal region from Panama northward to the vicinity of Ocampo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The native Taino of the West Indies discovered that extracts from the tree could sedate fish, allowing them to be caught by hand. This practice led to the tree's common names—fishpoison and fishfuddle. The tree has medicinal value as an analgesic and sedative.
The generic name is Latin for "fish killer", and the specific epithet is Latin for "little fish".
...Piscidia piscipula in languages:
- Czech
- piscidie mámivá
- English
- Jamaican dogwood
- English
- Fishfuddle
- English
- Florida fishpoison tree
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