Fruit and ripe seeds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 44064 | |||||
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Plant Name | 151.01 EUPHORBIACEAE Hevea spruceana | Entry Book Number | 5.1855 | |
| Artefact Name | Fruit and ripe seeds | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Fruit and ripe seeds | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Fruit and ripe seedsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Spruce, Richard | Donor No | 3299 | ||
| Donor Date | 16/01/1855 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Spruce, Richard | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Source: Spruce, R (1851-1855) Uses of Amazon plants. Journals from Barra to the Orinoco, from Barra to Tarapoto and notes on the uses of Amazon plants and on cryptograms, p1.: A large tree frequent about Sao Gabriel it has sapopemas at base and is very s, imilar in habit to Uaucá being distinguished by milk flowing when a sapopema is wounded. Seeds are boiled for 24 hours and yields a small quantity of oil which is good for lamps. The mass which remains is kept under water for three days and when taken o, ut has a pleasant taste and no ill smell. It is eaten without the addition of anything else and may be kept a long time, but if the seed has not been well boiled it is a quick poison and several Indians have fallen victims of incautious use. | ||||