Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 40093 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 112.01 BORAGINACEAE Cordia ovalis | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Ethiopia | TDWG Region | Ethiopia | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Ethiopia, Africa, Northeast Tropical Africa, Arussi Province | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Ash JW | Collector No | 305 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 08/03/1970 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: See Herb. sheet and spirit. Silver barked tree, in fruit. Lake Langans, Ethiopian Rift Valley. Fresh water lake. North shore. Soil a light tufa sand, very porous. This lake has hot springs in places. Seen also Awash, 20.1.70 near river. Sol, itary mature specimen amongst Acacia (eg Ash 306) & with two or three species of climbers. Below pumice cliff. Leaves scabid on upper surface olive green, paler below. Veins yellowish below. Fruit berry-like and reminescent of British Sorbus species. Bark, satiny, smooth, ? pale grey - tinged pinkish in places: deciduous, peeling and rolling up longitudinally like cinnamon bark. | ||||