Oil - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 62303 | |||||
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Plant Name | 51.01 SAPINDACEAE Alectryon excelsum | Entry Book Number | 39:1851 | |
| Artefact Name | Oil | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | New Zealand | TDWG Region | New Zealand | ||
| Parts Held | Oil | Geography Description | New Zealand | ||
| Uses | OilUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Spirit | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Colenso Rev W | Donor No | 3928 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1851 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | 'The oil is extracted from the large woody seed, thus; - The seeds are collected into a peculiar long pouch, made of the leaves of Phormium, in which, after having been softened by baking and steaming in the native ovens, they are well beaten, and the lon, g pouch is twisted and the oil drops. The which I now send, has stood 12 months to purify' WC | ||||