Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 14517 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 143.01 LAURACEAE Cinnamomum camphora | Entry Book Number | 35.1927 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | South Africa | TDWG Region | South Africa | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | South Africa, Pretoria | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Dept. of Agric. | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Sample A which weighed 21 lbs consisted of six pieces of stem 21 -27 inches long and 1 1/2 to 3 inches in diameter. The wood was fairly soft and yellowish white and was coarse with a rough, dark brown bark about 1/8 in thickness. The sample, has a very slight camphorous odour, the smell ? resembling that of Safrole. Voltile oil on distillation in a current of steam 1.05 per cent. This oil was clear pale brownish yellow heavier than water. The odour of the oil suggested the presence of Safrol, and was only slightly camphourous. By cooling the oil to a temperature of about 5 degrees C. no crystals separated: but on further cooling by immersion in solid carbon dioxide a small amount of camphor crystallised out - containing scarcely any camphor.(, While sample B was very rich in camphor) (q.v.) (Extracted from report transmitted to Kew from Imp. Inst. (0.2011 ) dated 18th Nov. 1927. | ||||