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3 unusual facts about Zamia integrifolia


George J. F. Clarke

He wrote a long article on the growing and curing of tobacco for cigar-making and discussed how the bulbous roots of "comtee" (coontie), which grows wild in Florida and Georgia, could be used to make a starchy flour called Florida arrowroot, thus anticipating a future commercial enterprise in Florida.

Zamia integrifolia

It is worth noting this plant's critical importance to the Eumaeus atala butterfly.

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Coontie (or koonti) is derived from the Seminole Native American language conti hateka.



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