Land Management Program at Archbold Biological Station
P.O. Box 2057,  Lake Placid, FL 33862
 Phone 863-465-2571  FAX 863-699-1927
 E-mail: landmanager@archbold-station.org

Rosary Pea (Abrus precatorius)

Fruits and flowers are produced in late Fall

 

Compound, multiple leaflets

 

Mature seeds that are highly poisonous if ingested

 

Numerous trailing vines from old growth rosary pea. 

 

Rosary pea is dormant during the winter months and often only visible from mature seeds and seed pods

 

Rosary pea growing 50 feet up a dead slash pine snag

 



 


 

Photo Credits: Jeff Hutchinson

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• Hutchinson, J.T., April 2003.
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