Mary Anne,

Interesting topic for a session at the upcoming SHA meetings in Québec City: documenting imported species. There has been some interesting work on this side of the Mississippi on introductions in the 16th (yes...) and 17th centuries. See you here?


William Moss
Conference Chair    /   47th  Conference on Historic and Underwater Archaeology
Président du Comité organisateur   /   47e Colloque sur l'archéologie historique et subaquatique
www.SHA2014.com


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Objet : Overseas Chinese site seed collection

Has anyone ever found a Dracontomelon seed at a site?  The Boise NF in partnership with the Idaho City Historical Foundation conducted excavations inside the Pon Yam Store in Idaho City, Idaho in 1998.  The floorboards were removed for foundation work and this provided an opportunity to see what had fallen through the cracks.  Preservation was fantastic.  Over 100 Chinese olive seeds, a Batnut, and these odd looking Dracontomelon seeds.  The Boise NF botanist was at the Smithsonian and there happened to be someone there that had been at Kew Gardens.  That person identified these seeds.     Thanks.

Mary Anne Davis                                      Emerging in the West: Idaho Territory 1863
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