Jojoba oil - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 71974 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 151.02 BUXACEAE Simmondsia chinensis | Entry Book Number | 29.1985.2 | |
| Artefact Name | Jojoba oil | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Jojoba oil | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Jojoba oilUse: MATERIALS - Lipids User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Lipids | ||
| Storage | Spirit | Related Items | |||
| Donor | University of Arizona | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Desert Whale Jojoba Inc, Arizonax0Dx0A | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Sperm whales, which are near extinction, are killed for their unique oil. Now there is a substitute, jojoba, a native plant of the Sonoran Desert jojoba is the finest consmetic oil available.x0Dx0APreviously part of Plants + People exhibition, in Museum no.1 1997- Spring 2016. | ||||