Jumping beans - Specimen details

Jumping beans - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 44621

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Plant Name 151.01 EUPHORBIACEAE Sebastiania palmeri Entry Book Number 118.1882
Artefact Name Jumping beans Vernacular Name
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Parts Held Jumping beans Geography Description Pacific Coast of South America
Uses Jumping beansUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
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Notes: Label source: The fresh seeds often contain the larvae of a moth, Carpocapsa saltitans which causes the jumping movement. See 'Kew Garden Miscellany' vol. 6 p. 304. Carpocapsa Insect Life iii p.431. Contrib. U.S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 1. p.112. (June 1891) note, 28 lines. A further note on the plant on which the jumping bean occurs. In this note Prof Riley referred to a letter just received from Prof ? Watson of Cambridge accompanying the specimen of seeds pods Sebastiani bulrealaris and the moth bred there from, . This moth Prof Riley found to be much smaller than Carpocapsa saltitans and in fact to belong to another genus (Grapholitha) and stated that he would shortly describe as Grapholitha sebastianiae. 15.10.08.

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