Tuber - Specimen details

Tuber - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 49353

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Plant Name 107.00 ASCLEPIADACEAE Raphionacme sp Entry Book Number 72.1907
Artefact Name Tuber Vernacular Name
Iso Country Kenya TDWG Region Kenya
Parts Held Tuber Geography Description Kenya, Africa, East Tropical Africa, Lake Nyanza
Uses TuberUse: MATERIALS - Latex/Rubber User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Latex/Rubber
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Donor Brett Spencer Donor No
Donor Date Donor Notes
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Collection Notes Collection Date
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Notes: Label source: Rubber extracted from one tuber of R. utilis Laboratory Royal Gardens Kew 1908. 1898. See letter 234.1907 Tuber said to yield good rubber. Total rubber extracted from one tuber of R. utilis, amounting to about 17 per cent of the dry-weight, of the tuber after extraction of resins etc. in spirit.
Determinations:107.00 ASCLEPIADACEAE Raphionacme sp
    107.00 ASCLEPIADACEAE Raphionacme utilis Brown & Stapf

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