Seeds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 41199 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 8.01 NYMPHAEACEAE Nelumbo nucifera | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Seeds | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Seeds | Geography Description | East Indies | ||
| Uses | SeedsUse: MEDICINES - Circulatory System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Circulatory System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Nelumbium speciosum - The calyx consists of four to five deciduous sepals the corolla of numerous deciduous petals, arranged in several rows; the stamens are numerous, in several rows, attached with the petals to the base of the receptacle;, the stigma is sessile; the dry flowers have a brown colour. The seeds (Kamal Kahri) are black, and like small acorns. Both Hindus and Mahometans consider the flowers to be cooling and astringent. As an external cooling application lotus flowers are made, into a paste with sandalwood or emblic myrobalans. The seeds are used as a food and in times of scarcity the roots are eaten but they are bitter and unpalatable. The seeds are imported from Persia in large quanitites. The dried flowers are sold in the sho, ps but those of Nymphaea are generally subsituted for them and are accepted by the natives as having the same properties. Dymock Pharm Soc. | ||||