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William Hooker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons / https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Hooker-Lagetta_lagetto.jpg

IMAGE INFORMATION

Bois dentelle le bois [the wood]

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

June 1773

Primary Source Reference:

"Liste des fruits, noyaux, graines ou semances des plantes de St. Domingue en ma collection, premier voyage," June 1773, Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, No. 55, p. 1

Notes:

Species identified in Catalogue of the Seed Plants of the West Indies, Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution / https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/WestIndies/catalog.htm

Search for "Lagetta" for four other examples of lacebark.

Specimen Type:

Dead/preserved

Du Simitière's Common Name:

Bois dentelle

Current Common Name:

Lacebark; gauze tree

Current Scientific Name

Lagetta lagetto