Bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 42227 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Erythrophleum guineense | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Bark | Geography Description | Lake Tanganyika, Kituta | ||
| Uses | BarkUse: VERTEBRATE POISONS User: Man | TDWG use | VERTEBRATE POISONS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 2 F 10 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Parke Date: 00/11/1897x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: This tree is very poisonous and natives have a peculiar custom of administering a solution of the bark to people suspected of witchcraft and crime in order to find out the guilty party. If the native who drinks vomits afterwards he will li, ve, but if he retains the poison he dies. | ||||