Root - Specimen details

Root - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 66790

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Plant Name 22.01 CARYOPHYLLACEAE Corrigiola littoralis Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Root Vernacular Name
Iso Country Morocco TDWG Region Morocco
Parts Held Root Geography Description Morocco
Uses RootUse: MATERIALS User: Not defined TDWG use MATERIALS
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Levey MJ de & Sons Donor No
Donor Date 00/06/1918 Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
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Notes: Label source: Letter 262,1918 : xii p.114 June 20th 1918, Messrs J de Levy & Sons, acknowledge the receipt of their letter of the 17th instant and in reply to say thet the sample of 'Sarghina' from Morocco, submitted for identification appears to be th, e root of C.littoralis (Syn, C.telephiifolia). On a similar specimen in the Museum at kew it is stated. - 'Exported from Tangier to Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and Egypt, for use as incense and as a yellow dye'.

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