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
The fruit of the Annona squamosa is called the sugar-apple or sweetsop.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Du Simitière's Common Name:
Pomme de canelle
Current Common Name:
Sugar-apple
Current Scientific Name
Annona squamosa
