Seed - Specimen details

Seed - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 64375

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Plant Name 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Entada scandens Entry Book Number
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Uses SeedUse: MEDICINES User: Man TDWG use MEDICINES
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Notes: Label source: Indian name Garbee or Gardul - Entada pusaetha - Polygamia honaecia - like Mimosea, sub tribe Acaciae An ? climbing shrub running over the highest trees and forming elegant festoons : legumes from 1 to 3 feet long and 4 or 5 inches broad, f, ormed of a series of joints, each containing one seed like the accompanying - pretty common along the range of Ghants - at Wanjura and Bamsari (?) one grows with a stem full 6 feet in circumference and runs over trees to a great distance. The seeds are u, sed as an antifebrile medicine by the Ghant people. In Java and Sumatra they are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.

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