Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 13728 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 120.01 BIGNONIACEAE Stereospermum xylocarpum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | India, Calcutta | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Anderson Dr | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1868 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Native of Coromandel. From a tree 60 years old destroyed by the cyclone of 1864 in the Roy. Bot. Gard., Calcutta. ? process of the same nature as that by ? obtained from pine wood, a thick fluid ? the colour and consistence of Stockholm tar, is obtained from the wood of this tree. So much does this substance resemble tar in odour as well as appearance that it may easily be mistaken for it. The wood of B. xylocarpa is hard, but easily split. When sawn across it presents a yellow resinous surf, ace. Sections examined microscopically show that the yellow colour is due to a solid resinous deposit in the pitted vascular system. Symock Pharm. Journ. | ||||