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:
Both Tillandsia balbisiana and Tillandsia fasciculata are known as perroquet in Haiti; both 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:
Petit[s] perroquets
Current Common Name:
Northern needleleaf; giant airplant
Current Scientific Name
Tillandsia balbisiana; Tillandsia fasciculata
