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:
Albizia lebbeck, Acacia scleroxyla, Albizia berteroana, Vitex heptaphylla, and Myrsine coriacea are all known as bois savane in Haiti; the first 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 de Savanne
Current Common Name:
Lebbeck
Current Scientific Name
Albizia lebbeck
