Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 34627 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 191.01 ARACEAE Amorphophallus sylvaticus | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | RootUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 24 G 6 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1878 | Donor Notes | Dymock Dr, Bombayx0Dx0A | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: The tuberous root, Madan Mast or Kummer Kas is found in most shops peeled and cut into segments, which are strung upon a string; the segments are about the size of those of an orange, of a reddish brown colour, shrunken and wrinkled, brittl, e and hard in dry weather; the cut surface is mammillated when soaked in water they swell up and become very soft and friable, developing a sickly smell like that of the spadix of the plant when in flower, a microscopic examination shows that the root isa, lmost entirely composed of starch. Madan Mast has a mucilaginous taste, and is faintly bitter and acrid; it is supposed to have restorative powers and is much in request. It is probable that the roots of the wild Amorphophallus campanulatus (=A. paeoniif, olius (Dennst.) Nicholson) form a part of the commercial article. The cultivated variety of the latter plant is largely used as a vegetable; under cultivation it loses its acridity and grows to an enormous size. | ||||
| Determinations: | 191.01 ARACEAE Amorphophallus sylvaticus Kunth 191.01 ARACEAE Synantherias sylvatica | ||||