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)
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Fruits and flowers are produced in late Fall
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Compound, multiple leaflets
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Mature seeds that are highly poisonous if ingested
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Numerous trailing vines from old growth rosary pea.
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Rosary pea is dormant during the winter months and often only visible from mature seeds and seed pods
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Rosary pea growing 50 feet up a dead slash pine snag
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Photo Credits: Jeff Hutchinson
• Hutchinson, J.T.,
April 2003.
© Archbold Biological Station, 2003 April.
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