Seeds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 27274 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 207.00 ARAUCARIACEAE Araucaria araucana | Entry Book Number | 84.1899 | |
| Artefact Name | Seeds | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | United Kingdom | TDWG Region | United Kingdom | ||
| Parts Held | Seeds | Geography Description | Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Cornwall, Pencarrow | ||
| Uses | SeedsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Ford Mrs | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Ripened on a monoecious branch of a tree grown in Pencarrow. Gardeners Chronicle Sep.2.1899 p.195. As follows: A monoecious Araucaria imbricata - I send you a photograph of a portion of an Araucaria imbricata growing at Pencarrow, Bodmin. T, he tree bears two very fine female cones, and a great number of male catkins. The second cone is just below the prominent one, but unfortunately it is hidden by the crossing of the branches. These cones contain an unusually large proportion of good seeds,, due no doubt, to the close proximity of so many pollen bearing catkins. The tree is situated at the foot of the famous Pencarrow rockery, quite 50 yards distant from any other examples of the same species. The nearest is a fine female tree, which has ove, r 40 cones; these are rather small, and contain a small proportion of fertile seeds. I attribute this to the distance - quite 40 yards - from the nearest pollen bearing tree. The monoecious tree was purchased by Sir William Molesworth, the well known Secr, etary of State for the Colonies, from Messrs Knight and Perry, the predecessors of Messrs Veitch & Co, for # 25, in 1834. My employer Mrs Ford a sister of Sir William, graphically describes the ceremony of planting this at that time, most rare and curious, tree. There was a large and distinguished house party at Pencarrow, and they assembled in solemn state to witness the ceremony of planting. Among them was Mr Charles Austin, the eminent lawyer, who after carelessly handling the plant, feelingly | ||||
| Determinations: | 207.00 ARAUCARIACEAE Araucaria araucana (Molina) K.Koch 207.00 ARAUCARIACEAE Araucaria imbricata Pav. | ||||