Fruit - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 57352 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 58.01 ROSACEAE Prunus tenella | Entry Book Number | 74.1878 | |
| Artefact Name | Fruit | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Japan | TDWG Region | Japan | ||
| Parts Held | Fruit | Geography Description | Japan | ||
| Uses | FruitUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Christy Thos | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1878 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Syn Prunus mume Sieb et Zucc., Fl.Jap. I p.29 ; Bai, Thunberg, Fl. Jap. p.199; Ume and Umebos, Kaempf. Amoen, p.799; Mume, Momi Fr et Sav. vol i p.117. This drug consists of the dried unripe fruits. In appearance they resemble small prunes, , but are very dry and hard. They have apparently been dried at a high temperature, since the kernels have a roasted taste and dark brown colour internally. The endocarp or stone is half to 3/4 of an inch long and about 1/2 an inch wide and 1/3 to 1/2 inc, h thick. It is perforated with small holes like that of the almond. The taste of the Sarcocarp of fleshy part is intensely sour. The Japanese character Bei, pronounced in Chinese Mei, is a generic term for any kind of plum and is sometimes applied to othe, r fruit. See Porter Smith Materia Med Chin. p.174 The fruits preserved in dregs of saki or Japanese beer are said by Kaempfer to be exported to India and China. According to Siebold and Zuccarini (L.C. p30 & 31) Amygdalus nana is much cultivated in Japana, nd was probably introduced from China. The same authors give a long and interesting account of the uses of this plant. It is a shrub or small tree from 12 to 20 feet high, flowering early in Feb. and is one of the plants which the Japanese cultivate exten, sively in the form of minature trees. The flowering branches are used to decorate the dwellings of the Japanese and the altars of their idols to indicate the approach of spring. The acid juice of the unripe fruit is used as a cooling drink invarious fever, s for when ripe the taste is insipid. The acid juice is also used in the preparation of the delicate pink rouge from safflower. | ||||
| Determinations: | 58.01 ROSACEAE Prunus tenella Batsch. 58.01 ROSACEAE Amygdalus nana L. | ||||