William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden (New York Botanical Garden-NY:NY)
1747397
853cfe87-e25f-4eb1-a663-dbc986f31e14
Diospyros virginiana L.
Ebenaceae
A. M. Strugnell (1995)
Collector unspecified
s.n.
1829-00-00
1829
United States of America, New York, New York, Elgin Garden, Manhattan.
40.759 -73.979028 +-301m. WGS84
Used GEOLocate Web Application to georeference precise locality. (High precision) Georeferenced to the Rockefeller Center, as its uncertainty range encompasses the Elgin Garden historical location.
Elgin Garden was one of the first botanical gardens in the United States and the first in New York State, established in 1801. It was a medicinal herb garden associated with Columbia University (Columbia College at the time), used by its medical students. The site is where Rockefeller Center stands today.