Pods - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 61143 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Platypodium elegans | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Pods | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Guatemala | TDWG Region | Guatemala | ||
| Parts Held | Pods | Geography Description | Guatemala | ||
| Uses | PodsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Hayes Sutton | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1861 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Fruit and bark (not with this specimen) of a large tree growing in the woods along the P.R.R between Gorgena and Matachin, collected March 12th 1861. Early in this month the leaves fall, and soon after the fruit ripens. The first trees Isaw, were naked of leaves and have only only fruit. The bark is very rough, the trunks of the trees being very uneven with deep crevices, and projecting angles, sometimes, as if twisted. These trunks are from one to two feet in diameter, of good hard wood, ex, cellent for fuel, of a yellowish colour. They are with their spreading tops 60 to 70 feet in height. I have specimens of the leaves as good as I can get at this season of the year. I shall send some of them and that there may be no mistake or confusion i, n getting together the fruit of one tree and the leaves of another, I shall place a little of the fruit in with them. The native name of the tree is 'Frijolillo' I could not fail to observe the great resemblance this fruit bears to that of the Balsam tree, of San Salvador, but the leaves are very different and the juice of the tree dries up to a kind of gum like kino and is not balsamic. May this tree not be a Pterocarpus and one of those mistaken for the balsam of Zulu (?) Sutton Hayes. | ||||