Tuber - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 37270 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 169.00 ORCHIDACEAE Dactylorhiza maculata | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Tuber | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Tuber | Geography Description | India, Bombay | ||
| Uses | TuberUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 27 F 9 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Description: three kinds of salep are generally to be met with in the Bombay Market, viz., palmate, large ovoid and small ovoid (threaded). All of them are more or less translucid and gum like, and have been decorticated before being dried., Salep has hardly any odour or taste, with water it forms a bulky jelly having a faint peculiar flavour. In the East it is mixed with milk and flavoured with spices and sugar. Microscopic Structure: the bulk of the tuber consists of parenchyma, the cells, of which contain either mucilage or starch altered by heat. It is traversed by small fibrovascular bundles. Commerce: the following kinds of salep are met with in the Bombay Market, Abushaheri or lasaniya, Rs 15-35 per maund of 41lbs. Punjahi-salep, Rs 1, 0 per pound (palmate tubers.) Punjabi Rs 2.5-7 per pound. Besides these immitation salep is largely prepared; it is said to be made of pounded potatoes and gum. Originally Orchis maculata | ||||
| Determinations: | 169.00 ORCHIDACEAE Dactylorhiza maculata 169.00 ORCHIDACEAE Orchis maculata | ||||