Fruit - Specimen details

Fruit - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 64099

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Plant Name 39.01 RUTACEAE Evodia rutaecarpa Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Fruit Vernacular Name
Iso Country Japan TDWG Region Japan
Parts Held Fruit Geography Description Japan
Uses FruitUse: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Man TDWG use MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders
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Donor Pharm Soc GB Donor No 22 F 3
Donor Date 00/11/1878 Donor Notes Christy Thos (Pres by)x0Dx0A
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Notes: Label source: Fr et Sav vol i pp 71 & 72 Phonzou Zoufou vol lxx fol ll This drug consists of the pedicels and very young fruits of the plant. The stalks are cylindrical about one line in diam covered with down consisting of minute spreading hairs. The, fruits are reddish brown, deeply pitted with oil glands, verying in size from a swan shot to a small pea, and divided half way down into five segments. The taste is decidedly rutaceous and pungent, although not exactly that of rue. The odour is very sim, ilar but less powerful. Possibly the young fruits of E glauca Miq. are also used, since koshiou you is given as the Jap name for this sp in Phonzou Zoufou vol lxx, fol. 10. Boymia rutaecarpa is a handsome shrub 6 to 10 feet high, and cult in S of Japan fo, r beauty. Flowers dioecious from May and June. Drug is thought a valuable remedy used as purgative, emmenagogue, sudorific and stimulant and possesses properties thought similar to common rue.

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