page_title: Zamia integrifolia
section_title: Ediblity
hierarchical_section_title: Zamia integrifolia / Ediblity and toxicity / Ediblity
caption_attribution_description: English: Engraving of a strainer used by the Florida Seminoles to prepare coontie arrowroot flour, from Clayton MacCauley's 1887 report, "The Seminole Indians of Florida".
context_page_description: Zamia integrifolia is a small, tough, woody cycad native to the southeast United States, the Bahamas, Cuba, Cayman Islands and Puerto Rico. The species is possibly extinct in Puerto Rico and Haiti.
context_section_description: Indigenous tribes of Florida like the Seminoles and Tequestas would grid the root and soak it overnight afterwards they would rinse it with running water for several hours to remove the rest of the water-soluble toxin cycasin. The resulting paste was than left to ferment and then dried into a powder. The resulting powder than could be used to make a bread-like substance. By the late 1880s, several mills in the Miami area started to produce Florida arrowroot until their demise after the World War 1.
caption: A strainer used by Seminoles to extract an edible starch from coontie root.
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