Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 49199 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 107.00 ASCLEPIADACEAE Asclepias curassavica | Entry Book Number | 166.1886 | |
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Jamaica | TDWG Region | Jamaica | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | Jamaica, Southern America, Caribbean | ||
| Uses | RootUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Col & Ind Exhib 1886 | Donor No | 134 | ||
| Donor Date | 22/11/1886 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: False ipecacuanha. Exhibitor: Botanical Dept. Local name Kurki. Common in gardens, and in some places has run wild. It has a woody branching root, with light brown bark and numerous fibres, wood white, bark thin. When fresh it exudes a milk, y juice. The taste is bitter and somewhat acrid. A section of the root bark placed under the microscope shows from without inwards, 1st, a tuberous layer; 2nd, several rows of large cells containing conglomerate raphides, with starch and granular matter;, 3rd, a vascular zone, two or three large dotted vessels being situated at the cambium end of each medullary ray where it projects into the bark. | ||||