Seeds of Vegetable Ivory Palm - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 36051 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Phytelephas macrocarpa | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Seeds of Vegetable Ivory Palm | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Guatemala | TDWG Region | Guatemala | ||
| Parts Held | Seeds of Vegetable Ivory Palm | Geography Description | Guatemala | ||
| Uses | Seeds of Vegetable Ivory PalmUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Sutton Hayes | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1861 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Note source: Accompanying specimen are two drawings of the nuts with the names Guyol and Pyiballe Opuscular source: 'The tree palms which I have seen on the Isthmus of Panama are the following: Cow or Cuw nut palm. The most useful. Boyal palm. It is the, largest. Iriartea exa?rhuza. The handsomest. Maquenque palm. The neatest. Sagus or Matumho palm. Has largest fronds. Pyaballe palm. Fruit edible. Oil palm. Fruit gives good oil. Manicaria or Jack palm. Singular. Tagua or Ivory Palm. The most curiou, s. Black Palm. the most prickly. Palm with palmate fronds at ....?... Good for brooms. Manque at Agua Lucia. Albumen of fruit edible. Coquilla palm at Agua Lucia. Very prickly. Those checked I send fruit of. All through San Salvador and Guatemala Isa, w a curious palm with pinnate fronds, very spiny, the bases of which are persistent, covering the caudex of the taller trees - sometimes 30 feet high - quite to the ground. The natives call it 'Cuyal'. The fruit is edible, the rind being smooth and cortac, eous ? ...?... fatty yellowish pulp, which is quite hard; it is nearly round; each spadix bears a great number of nuts. The nuts are found in all the market places exposed (?) for sale during their season'. Sutton Hayes | ||||