Sacking material - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 29996 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 175.18 PHORMIACEAE Phormium tenax | Entry Book Number | 54.1928 | |
| Artefact Name | Sacking material | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Argentina | TDWG Region | Argentina | ||
| Parts Held | Sacking material | Geography Description | Argentina | ||
| Uses | Sacking materialUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Espantosa A | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1927 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Sacking made by J.B. Storey Manchester. With the fibre of Phormium tenax grown and stripped on the Parana-Uruguay Delta. Argentina. Black & white photograph showing flax growing. Mr Dallimore, Herewith a specimen of sacking material made fr, om Phormium tenax fibre grown in the Argentine by A Espantosa who told me that he had an estate of 10,000 acres of this plant. Leaves of 10 to 12 feet long were common. See enclosed photo with the man standing in amongst the plants. His market is a local, one as there is a great demand for strong string for binding corn sheafs. CPR 30/11/1927. Ref. No. 54/1927. | ||||