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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: Showing relative proportion of young growth to mature leaves. Note the pulvis stalk on the leaves (this is the enlarged area at the bottom of the petiole {base of leaf, not base of leaflet}) In the young growth there is a young bud formed of stipules and a young leaf covered in hairs
Date: January 14,2007
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