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Jamaican Dogwood

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Scientific Name: Piscidia piscipula
Common Name: Jamaican dogwood
Family: Fabaceae
Specific Region: Key Largo,FL
Description: Measurement of young growth. Young leaves covered in hairs on the outsides, the roundish shape in the upper left is a bud formed by stipules(which will later drop off and leave the characteristic stipule scars on the branches). In the notch is a tear-dropped axillary bud
Date: January 13, 2007
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