Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 1773
Primary Source Reference:
"Liste des fruits, noyaux, graines ou semances des plantes de St. Domingue en ma collection, premier voyage," June 1773, Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, No. 55, p. 1
Notes:
Four different speices -- Muntingia calabura, Boehmeria ehrenbergia, Samyda dodecandra, and Guazuma ulmifolia -- are all known as bois d'orme in Haiti, the last of which 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 d'orme
Current Common Name:
West Indian elm; bay cedar
Samyda dodecandra
Current Scientific Name
Guazuma ulmifolia
