Bark - Specimen details

Bark - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 64479

Plant Name 35.00 HUMIRIACEAE Humiria floribunda Entry Book Number 86.1849
Artefact Name Bark Vernacular Name
Iso Country Brazil TDWG Region Brazil
Parts Held Bark Geography Description Brazil, Para
Uses BarkUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Spruce, Richard Donor No 13
Donor Date 28/12/1849 Donor Notes
Collector Spruce, Richard Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Source: Spruce, R. (1855) Domestic Uses. Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (pp31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p31.: Juice distils slowly from between wood and bark; has scarcely any odour when fresh, but in crystallising becomes odiferous. About San C, arlos and on Uaupes, I have noticed scent of umiri tree when several paces off. Venezuelans give name of niƱo to fruit

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