: any of several tropical American woody cycads (genus Zamia) whose roots and stems yield a starchy foodstuff
called also arrowroot
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These insects are sucking juices from the coontie leaves and depositing sap and excreta on the leaves.
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Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2023
An infamous example is the arrowroot starch derived from the native coontie, later banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
—Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 14 June 2018
Atala butterflies use a similar strategy based on their coontie consumption.
—Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 14 June 2018
Sago palms, also known as cycads, cardboard palms, fern palms and coontie plants, hail from tropical and subtropical areas but have become popular ornamental plants in the United States in the past 10 to 20 years.
—Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee, 14 Mar. 2018
Zebra longwing and Julia butterflies flutter about as red and yellow Atala caterpillars munch on coonties, and bees enjoy the ever-changing flowers in bloom.
—Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2017
For these problem areas give Asiatic jasmine, coontie, mondo grass and wire vine a try.
—Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 June 2017
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Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2023
An infamous example is the arrowroot starch derived from the native coontie, later banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
—Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 14 June 2018
Atala butterflies use a similar strategy based on their coontie consumption.
—Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 14 June 2018
Sago palms, also known as cycads, cardboard palms, fern palms and coontie plants, hail from tropical and subtropical areas but have become popular ornamental plants in the United States in the past 10 to 20 years.
—Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee, 14 Mar. 2018
Zebra longwing and Julia butterflies flutter about as red and yellow Atala caterpillars munch on coonties, and bees enjoy the ever-changing flowers in bloom.
—Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2017
For these problem areas give Asiatic jasmine, coontie, mondo grass and wire vine a try.
—Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 June 2017
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