Fibre - Specimen details

Fibre - Specimen details

Back to search results

Catalogue Number: 65804

Plant Name 31.01 MALVACEAE Malvaviscus drummondii Entry Book Number 87.1913
Artefact Name Fibre Vernacular Name
Iso Country Mexico TDWG Region Mexico
Parts Held Fibre Geography Description Mexico, Oaxaca
Uses FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Fibres
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Stuart R Cope Donor No
Donor Date 14/11/1913 Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: It grows by seed easily but also as easily by stumps. It is a perennial. B6 By either way it bears first crop in six months, and then it can be cut again once or twice in the year. It grows in all kinds of soil, rich, poor, hard, sandy,, dry or damp. Each cutting will yield nearly one ton of nett dry fibre per acre, that is two tons a year per acre. The culture is easy and inexpensive and I am now arranging for the proper system. It can be made a splendid auxiliary crop between rubber, . Its staple can attain 3 or 4 metre and I believe it can be so treated as to be spun as cotton or fibre. (Letter 567, 1913, viii, p196. Stuart R Cope, 6th Nov, 1913, to Director). Very good colour, well cleaned excellent length and fair strength. Very s, imilar to Calcutta Jute. Today's value 25 pounds sterling per ton.

Simple search   |