Fruits - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 59650 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Detarium senegalense | Entry Book Number | 2.1859 | |
| Artefact Name | Fruits | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Nigeria | TDWG Region | Nigeria | ||
| Parts Held | Fruits | Geography Description | Nigeria, Nupe | ||
| Uses | FruitsUse: User: Man | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Niger Exped | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Barter Cx0Dx0A | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: The hard seed of a large tree which you also may probably recognize as it is seed to be found in Sierra Leone. I send it to you to tell you of its uses. The fruit is an oval flattened disc and when cooked its mealy mesocarp is eaten and is, not unpleasant having a slight flavour of ginger bread. When beaten into a pulp again it is made into a confit. Its kernel (which is every albuminous) has usually though not always stronly the odour of Tonguin bean and a hydrocyanic taste - in some place, s its beaten into a small cake and given to cattle - housa call it and its tree Taiura ?? See Dr Baikies letter to Sir JD Hooker dated Bida 9 April 62. Recd in August | ||||