We censused plants bearing ripe fruit along eight permanently marked transects to describe patterns of ripe fruit availability in a spatially interspersed patchwork of seasonally dry forests in the northern Florida Keys. Plants were sampled every four to six weeks between May 1998 and April 1999. We noted every tree, shrub, or vine with ripe fleshy fruits present and rated each stem for the proportion of fruit produced. This sampling scheme allowed us to describe periods of ripe fruit availability in the forest community, as well as for the fourteen most frequently encountered species. Ripe fruit availability peaked during the wet season (July–September), deciduous trees and evergreen shrubs produced most of the fruit in most months, and most of the species producing fruit were evergreen trees in all months.