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:
Both Annona glabra (which bears the pond apple) and Annona reticulata (which bears the custard apple or bullock's heart) are known in Haiti as coeur boeuf, coeur de boeuf, or cachiman coeur de boeuf. The latter is pictured here. 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
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Du Simitière's Common Name:
Cachiman coeur de boeuf
Current Common Name:
Wild sweetsop
Current Scientific Name
Annona reticulata
