Stem - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 36986 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 174.07 SMILACACEAE Smilax sp | Entry Book Number | 19.1853 | |
| Artefact Name | Stem | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Stem | Geography Description | Brazil, Amazonas, Rio Negro | ||
| Uses | StemUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Spruce, Richard | Donor No | 160 | ||
| Donor Date | 12/03/1853 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Spruce, Richard | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Source: Spruce, R. (1855) Domestic Uses. Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (pp31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p 40.: Indians employed in collecting often put the tuber into the earth upside down after cutting off the long roots that radiate from it, ino, rder to kill it. For were all the sarsaparilla dead (say they) the white man would not waste our lives in this detestable employ. At other times they pack the tubers into the middle of a bundle and thus cause a loss to purchaser of as much as 50 cent.x0Dx0A, x0Dx0ASource: Museum entry book 1847-55, p211: This is the true sasparilla of the Rio Negro and the Indians assure me that they never take the root of any other species. | ||||