although in a cultivated area of the Jardin Botanico, this plant maybe a preserved native specimen as wild plants are found in nearby natural areas of the Jardin
Description: English: section of wood of Eysenhardtia polystachya, with infusions of sap-wood and heart-wood. Date: 1916. Source: Safford, William Edwin (1916). "Lignum nephriticum". Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Government Printing Office. p. 271–298. Author: Safford, William Edwin.