Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 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:
Two species -- Manilkara zapota (sapodilla) and Pouteria sapota (mamey sapote) -- are known as jaune d'oeuf 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:
Jaune d'oeuf arbre (seed)
Current Common Name:
Mamey sapote
Current Scientific Name
Pouteria sapota
