Seeds - Specimen details

Seeds - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 51066

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Plant Name 101.01 SAPOTACEAE Pouteria multiflora Entry Book Number 86.1897
Artefact Name Seeds Vernacular Name
Iso Country Dominica TDWG Region Dominica
Parts Held Seeds Geography Description Dominica
Uses SeedsUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Jones J Donor No
Donor Date 00/08/1897 Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: Extract from letter from J Jones to Director, from Botanic Station Dominica, 2nd August, 1897: Seeds of another forest tree of Dominica known as Pain d'epice it is a large tree and the fruit is sometimes eaten but it is certainly a very po, or fruit. Mr Hart in his Report for 1896 speaks of a tree in Trinidad known under the above name and he says it is Lucuma multiflora. Penny a piece applied to L multiflora in Dominica and other West Indian Islands. Referred to in Herb sheets and also i, n description of the plant in Icones Plantanum. Plate 2498.
Determinations:101.01 SAPOTACEAE Pouteria multiflora (A.DC.) Eyma
    101.01 SAPOTACEAE Lucuma multiflora A.DC.

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