Ia faaauau pea le suʻesuʻega o lenei palakalafa - Na taunuu Philipp Franz von Siebold i Netherlands i le 1830, i le taimi tonu lava na amata ai ona iai faafitauli faapolokiki i Brussels, lea na iʻu ai i le tutoʻatasi o Peleseuma
. Na vave ona ia toe faaolaina ana aoina o mea e faatatau i ituaiga tagata i Antwerp ma ana faataʻitaʻiga o laau totō i Brussels ma ave i Leiden, faatasi ai ma le fesoasoani a Johann Baptist Fischer. Na ia tuua ana tuufaatasiga o laau o loo ola, lea na auina atu i le Iunivesite o Ghent. O le faalauteleina o lenei tuufaatasiga o laau e seāseā maua ma e lē masani ai, na taʻitaʻia ai i le taʻutaʻua o le faatoʻaga i Ghent. I le faafetai, na avatu ai e le Iunivesite o Ghent iā te ia i le 1841 ni faataʻitaʻiga o laau taʻitasi mai lana uluaʻi faaputuga.