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Rose Marone (feuilles Sechées) [dried leaves]

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

June 1773

Primary Source Reference:

"Liste des Plantes de St. Domingue d'ont j'ay les feuilles Sechées dans ma collection," June 1773, Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, No. 55, p. 3

Notes:

Both em>Pereskia portulacifolia and em>Mimosa ceratonia are known as rose marron 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:

Rose Marone

Current Scientific Name

Pereskia portulacifolia