Seeds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 50928 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 101.01 SAPOTACEAE Mimusops sp | Entry Book Number | 109.1891 | |
| Artefact Name | Seeds | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Ghana | TDWG Region | Ghana | ||
| Parts Held | Seeds | Geography Description | Ghana | ||
| Uses | SeedsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Ferguson E | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Oil products; A native at Cape Coast, writing to a Liverpool Merchant, states that a product known as the Bacco nut contains on oil for various utilities from a native point of view and the method of extracting it on the coast is similar t, o the one in vogue for treating Palm Kernels, namely beating the produce in a wooden mortar and then frying in a pot. The writer alleges that these nuts are found to yield more oil than Palm Kernels. (Extract from Gold Coast Globe, March 4th 1902) This, appears to be mimusops, it is possible M d'jave. | ||||