The Tequesta gathered many plant foods, including saw palmetto ("Serenoa repens") berries, cocoplums ("Chrysobalanus icaco"), sea grapes ("Coccoloba uvifera"), prickly pear (nopal) fruits ("Opuntia" spp.), gopher apples ("Licania micbauxii"), pigeon plums ("Cocoloba diversifolia"), palm nuts, false mastic seeds, cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto), and hog plum (Ximenia americana). The roots of certain plants, such as "Smilax" spp. and coontie ("Zamia integrifolia"), were edible when ground into flour, processed to remove toxins (in the case of coontie), and made into a type of unleavened bread. (Archaeologists have commented, however, on the lack of evidence for coontie use in excavated sites.) Briton Hammon, the sole survivor of an English sloop that was attacked by Tequestas after grounding off Key Biscayne in 1748, reported that the Tequestas fed him "boil'd corn".