Seed - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 32158 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE Oryza sativa | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Seed | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Iraq | TDWG Region | Iraq | ||
| Parts Held | Seed | Geography Description | Iraq, Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Amarah | ||
| Uses | SeedUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Homsey Silim & Co | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Specimen includes three packets - 1. A small amount of poor seed, chaff and dirt. 2. Rice grains additional to the seed 3. Oplipmens ? from mixture including 500 rice. Also Echinochloa crus galli Beauv. (Panicum crus-galli Linn.) JB 18.5.19, 31. Sample 15.May 1923 Selected from mixture of rice 'Amarah Paddy' from Iraq. Opuscular source: Amarah Paddy Sample of Paddy grown in Amarah (Iraq) asking whether one of our departments can undertake to issue a certificate stating the various qualities, of seed or foreign matter contained in the said sample. We are chiefly concerned with the admixture of small seed with the appearance of millet and we shall thank you to express an opinion in this connection, as we have been given to understand in anothe, r quarter that there is room for doubt. It has in fact been suggested that this small seed might represent 'immature paddy'. Offering to pay Slim Homsey & Co, 37 St Mary Hse. (m.374.31) | ||||
| Determinations: | 200.00 POACEAE Oryza sativa L. 200.00 POACEAE Echinochloa crus-galli L. | ||||