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Bois immortel (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:

Several species in the genus Erythrina are known as bois immortel in Haiti, one of which, Erythrina leptopoda, 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:

Bois immortel

Current Common Name:

Bois Inmortel; slenderpetiole; coralbean

Current Scientific Name

Erythrina leptopoda