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Atlas of Florida Plants / https://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/plant.aspx?id=1331IMAGE INFORMATION

Cassier ou canefice (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:

This species may have been Senna pendula, which was known as canéfice bâtard and casse-hallier. Joel Timyan, Bwa yo: Important Trees of Haiti (Washington, D.C., 1996), p. 262

Specimen Type:

Dead/preserved

Du Simitière's Common Name:

Cassier ou canefice

Current Common Name:

Easter Cassia; Christmas Senna

Current Scientific Name

Senna pendula