Roots - Specimen details

Roots - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 34584

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Plant Name 191.01 ARACEAE Symplocarpus foetidus Entry Book Number 100.1887
Artefact Name Roots Vernacular Name
Iso Country United States TDWG Region United States
Parts Held Roots Geography Description USA
Uses RootsUse: MEDICINES User: Man TDWG use MEDICINES
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Donor Prof Goodale Donor No
Donor Date 19/08/1887 Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
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Notes: Label source: Selected specimens of Southern crude drugs, Wallace Bros - Statesville N.C. Skunk Cabbage - The root of Dracontium foetidum - Ictodes foetidus (Bigelow) S.foetidus (Barton Med Bot) US. Botanists have had some difficultly in arranging this, plant. It was attached by Milldenow (sp?) to the genus Dracontium by Michause & Purch was consis Detodes (sp?) expressive of the odour of the plant. The term Symplocarpus though erroneous in its origin was first proposed and having been adopted by sever, al botanists should be retained. S.foetidus Nutt. (Kew Index)

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