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
