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542 Florida Ethnobotany
Prunus. Prunus americana (top left). Prunus angustifolia (upper middle left). Prunus caroliniana (lower middle left). Prunus
serotina (bottom left). All from Sargent 1905. Prunus myrtifolia (right). a. Flowering branch. b. Lateral spike at early stage of
expansion. c. Staminate flower, the pistillode longitudinally dissected. d. Perfect flower, front-side view. e. Perfect flower,
longitudinally dissected. f. Floral diagram of perfect flower. g. Fruits. Drawn by Priscilla Fawcett. From Correll and Correll
1982.
kwanunsdiʔi (Cherokee)
niwaharit (niwaharit-nahaapi, plum tree, Pawnee)
pank-ai-da-lo (sour plum, Kiowa)
[August, Canadian, goose, hog, horse, native, river,
thorn, wild] plum (‘‘plum’’ from Old English
plumé, which in turn was derived from Latin
prunus); Potawatomi plum (a tribe in Michigan;
the plum was introduced into Utah); red and
yellow plumb (used by Williams [1837] 1962);
[American, red, wild yellow] plum (Asa Gray
1875 distinguished red and yellow plums)
poskam (Strachey in [1612] 1953 wrote poskamatk;
Siebert 1975 found cognates among several other
Algonquian languages, some of which were
transfers after contact with the imported European
fruits; the Shawnee say poʔkama for the
peach, Prunus persica, and used the diminutive
poʔkama Ta for plum; the Ojibwa say pokkitons,
but apply it to the pear, Pyrus communis);
bu’gesana’tig (Ojibwa)
pvkánvhe (Muskogee)
sipuamantícan (Delaware)
sloe (plum, from Old English sláh, used in English
since about A.D. 725, related to Frisian slé, Dutch
slee, German Schlehe)
tischo (Onondaga)
turi·’tcine’ (fruit bitter, Catawba)
Prunus angustifolia (narrow-leaved)
akônt atcû’ti (akônti, peach, atcû’ti, red, Ofo)
Chickasaw [Chicasa] plum (‘‘Chickasaw,’’ the
name of a Muskogean tribe, appeared in English
by 1674; used for the plum by André Michaux
1802)
contai (Quapaw)
eco empvkanv (eco, deer, em, its, pvkanv, peach,
Creek)
icho intakkosáwwa [ichintakkosàwwa] (icho, deer,
im-, its, takkola, plum, sawwa, small, Alabama);
isi intakkonlushi [isi takkonlushi] (isi, deer, in, its,
takalo, peach, oshi, small, Choctaw); takkolsalbá
(takkolá, peach, salbá, maybe cognate with
Alabama sawwa, small, Koasati)