Excursion in the greenhouses (part 2)

An invitation to discover tropical plantsbrought back
from Cuba by Marie-Victorin.

Elliptic fiddlewood
Citharexylum ellipticum
Verbenaceae

Species collected in Cuba by Brother Marie-Victorin. Arrived at the Montr?al Botanical Garden on April 15, 1941, as seeds.

Photo: Michel Tremblay, JBM

Pale cordia
Cordia leucosebestena

Boraginaceae

Species collected in Cuba by the Atkins Institute, in Cienfuegos. Arrived at the Montr?al Botanical Garden on November 4, 1939, as seeds.

Coontie
Zamia pumila

Zamiaceae

Species collected in Cuba by Brother L?on. Arrived at the Montr?al Botanical Garden on September 27, 1944 (shortly after Brother Marie-Victorin's death), as a plant.

Photo: Michel Tremblay, JBM

Mound-lily yucca
Yucca gloriosa

Agavaceae

Species collected in Cuba by Brother Marie-Victorin.
Arrived at the Montr?al Botanical Garden
on February 8, 1939, as a cutting.

Barbados gooseberry
Pereskia aculeata

Cactaceae

Species collected in Cuba by Brother Marie-Victorin. Arrived at the Montr?al Botanical Garden on June 3, 1941, as a cutting.

Flowers of Pereskia aculeata

Gilles Murray, JBM

Photo: Michel Tremblay, JBM

Rose cactus
Pereskia grandifolia

Cactaceae

Species collected in Cuba by Brother Marie-Victorin. Arrived at the Montr?al Botanical Garden on April 29, 1941, as a cutting.

Frangipani
Plumeria clusioides

Apocynaceae

Species collected in Cuba by Brother Marie-Victorin. Arrived at the Montr?al Botanical Garden on April 15, 1940, as seeds.

Photo: Michel Tremblay, JBM

Under the Cuban Sun with Marie-Victorin [Jardin botanique de Montréal]