Fibre - Specimen details

Fibre - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 65870

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Plant Name 31.01 MALVACEAE Wissadula rostrata Entry Book Number 121.1891
Artefact Name Fibre Vernacular Name
Iso Country Grenada TDWG Region Grenada
Parts Held Fibre Geography Description Grenada
Uses FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Fibres
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Donor Botanic Garden Grenada Donor No
Donor Date Donor Notes Smithx0Dx0A
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: Value 14 pounds sterling per ton. Label source: Known in Trinidad as 'Maholtine'. Grows anywhere, gives a fibre sometimes over 10 feet long. Good colour and moderate strength but the filaments are much interlaced which would lead to often, being greatly broken in preparing ? for spinning. We think however that it would meet with a market at 14 pounds per ton in London today. Report of Messrs Ide & Christie Sep. 30.1891.
Determinations:31.01 MALVACEAE Wissadula rostrata Planch.
    31.01 MALVACEAE Abutilon periplocifolium

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