Piassaba Fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 35779 | |||||
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Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Leopoldinia piassaba | Entry Book Number | 65.1855 | |
| Artefact Name | Piassaba Fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Piassaba Fibre | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Piassaba FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Spruce, Richard | Donor No | 191 | ||
| Donor Date | 15/06/1855 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Spruce, Richard | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Source: Museum entry book 1855-61.: Petioles of the Piassaba palm showing the mode of growth of the beard, which is quite analagous to the matted sheath of the fronds of the common cocoa, the beard of the Patana etc. The Piassaba used for making ropes,et, c., is taken from young trees only, of from 3 to 5 feet high; for as the trunk grows higher, the beard of each frond grows gradually shorter, so as to be unserviceable for such purposes. I enclose the long beard taken from a tree 4 ft high and others from, a tree of 40 feet.Forests of the Rio Guiana and Rio Casiquiare. | ||||