Fruit - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 56082 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 75.00 CUCURBITACEAE Luffa acutangula | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruit | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Fruit | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | FruitUse: MEDICINES - Skin/Subcutaneous Cellular Tissue Disorders User: Bovines | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Skin/Subcutaneous Cellular Tissue Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 19 B 5 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum 1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: The vine resembles that of the cult Turai. The fruit is smooth, from 3 - 5 ins long, ovoid, and marked with ten prominent, sharp longitudinal ridges. There is a small operculum at the apex - deciduous. Internally it is filled with white, spongy pulp, of a cucumber odour. The seeds are grey and marked with small irregular black prominent specks. The leaves are bitter, the fruit only slightly so. The former I have seen used as an external application to sores in oxen. I have no experien, ce of the effects of this plant when given internally. | ||||