Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 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:
Two species -- Manilkara zapota (sapodilla) and Pouteria sapota (mamey sapote) -- are known as jaune d'oeuf in Haiti, both of which are 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:
Jaune d'oeuf arbre
Current Common Name:
Mamey sapote
Current Scientific Name
Pouteria sapota
