diagram, h. Fruit, closed (center) and open from side and above. Drawn by Priscilla Fawcett. From Correll and Correll 1982.

Whether or not the remedy helped the disease, the Fuggers of Augsburg, also noted as the most important bankers of the time, became the chief importers of the plants (Crosby 1972). Trees disappeared in the New World from much of their former range as the Fuggers commissioned shiploads to be brought to Europe to satisfy the market largely created by them. By the time the English surveyed the Florida coast, they commented that almost all the trees had been cut (Romans [1775] 1961).