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:
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
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Du Simitière's Common Name:
Sorrossi [sorossi] espagnol
Current Common Name:
Bitter melon; bitter apple; bitter gourd; bitter squash; balsam-pear
Current Scientific Name
Momordica charantia
