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 Jatropha curcas and Jatropha glossypiifolia are known as médécinier in Haiti, the first of which 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:
Medicinier [médécinier]
Current Common Name:
Physic nut; Barbados nut; poison nut; bubble bush; purging nut
Current Scientific Name
Jatropha curcas
