Meal - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 77764 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 191.01 ARACEAE Alocasia macrorrhizos | Entry Book Number | 21.1983 | |
| Artefact Name | Meal | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Meal | Geography Description | Bengal India | ||
| Uses | MealUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 107 [Cat. No.] | ||
| Donor Date | 22/08/1983 | Donor Notes | BK Paul & Co, donated 1926 | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: This is a large arum cultivatated in some parts of India, specially Bengal. In the fresh state the root stock is peeled and slices boiled and eaten like potatoes. The powder prepared from dried slices may be kept for a long time without dete, rioration. It is mild laxative and diuretic and is very useful in habitual constipation, piles and anasarca. As an invalid food it possesses the recommendation of being very light and nutritious; mixed with wheat flour the meal may be made into very light, bread. | ||||
| Determinations: | 191.01 ARACEAE Alocasia indica 191.01 ARACEAE Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don | ||||