Skip to main content
Please wait...
Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhlers Medizinal-Pflanzen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons / https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Manihot_esculenta_-…IMAGE INFORMATION

Magnoc [manioc] mâron (feuilles Sechées) [dried leaves]

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

December 1773

Primary Source Reference:

"Vegetaux de St. Domingue ramassées dans mon Second voyage," December 1773, Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, No. 55, p. 4

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:

Magnoc [manioc] mâron

Current Common Name:

Cassava

Current Scientific Name

Manihot esculenta