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Bois d'orme (feuilles Sechées) [dried leaves]

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

December 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:

Four different speices -- Muntingia calabura, Boehmeria ehrenbergia, Samyda dodecandra, and Guazuma ulmifolia -- are all known as bois d'orme in Haiti. 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:

Bois d'orme