Some authors have argued that the Calusa cultivated maize and "Zamia integrifolia" (coontie) for food. The villages had pumpkin and cornfields and a coontie processing area. "Zamia pumila", commonly called coontie or arrowhead, as well as introduced ornamental cycads. Seminole diets consisted of hominy and coontie roots, fish, turtles, venison, and small game. At the larval stage, the "Eumaeus atala" caterpillar exclusively eats the leaves of the coontie. Coontie (or koonti) is derived from the Seminole Native American language "conti hateka". On January 6, 1856, two men gathering coontie south of the Miami River were killed. The last commercial "coontie starch" factory in Florida was destroyed by the 1926 Miami Hurricane. Zamia pumila, or coontie palm, is a small, tough, woody cycad of the West Indies.