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Species: Metopium toxiferum
Collection Date: September 3, 1954
Bar Code ID: 000001288
UUID: a486af52-26cd-47ed-802d-76fb696f5380
Collectors: Elbert L. Little, Jr.
Collector's Identifier: 16506
Fruit Present?: True
Country: United States
State or Province: Florida
County or Parish: Monroe
Fips Code: 12087
Nearest Named Place: Key Largo
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Verbatim Directions to Locality: Key Largo, near N. end; Hammock (tropical evergreen hardwood forest).
Altitude (in meters):3
Method of Altitude Determination: unknown
Habitat: slope level; soil [is] coral limestone; hammock (tropical evergreen hardwood forest).
Plant Morphology Observations: tree; fruit green, turning orange brown.
Notes: Florida poisontree.
Sap poinsonous to touch.
Donor: Forest Service Herbarium, United States Department of Agriculture
Non digital information?: N

Identification Records

Identifier's Name: E L L
Text Identification Date: 1961
Lowest Rank Identified: Species
Identification History: Metopium toxiferum (L.) Krug & Urban
Determinavit: det.

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