Fruits - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 40958 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 4.06 SCHISANDRACEAE Schisandra nigra | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruits | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Japan | TDWG Region | Japan | ||
| Parts Held | Fruits | Geography Description | Japan | ||
| Uses | FruitsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Christy T | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1879 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: VI. Porter Smiths 'Chinese Materia Medica' p.126. Gome See (6)-Schizandra nigra Max. Syn Madzi-ssa, Maximowicz, Diag, Pl. Nov.? et Mandsh. Dec.x.p. 370. This drug consists of reddish or black wrinkled fruits about the size of a pea, each co, ntaining two flattened kidney-shaped seeds. The seeds have minutely tuberculated testa, and contain an oily albuminous nucleus. The berry is sweetish and mucilaginous, and the kernel of the seed has a slightly bitter oily taste, but no odour. Gomichi is g, iven by Franchet and Savatier as the Japanese name for Schizandra Chinensis, Baill. That plant however has smooth seeds. Maximowicz, in the work above quoted, states that S. nigra is at once distinguished from all the other species of this genus by the bl, ack berries with a glaucous bloom and the tuberculated seeds. S. nigra is a climbing plant, clothing the pine and fir trees with its foliage in alpine woods, especially those of the Kundsho san chain of mountains in central Kiusiu. The fruit is ripe on Oc, tober, and is considered edible. The Chinese character wu-wei-tsze, which, according to Dr Porter Smith, is the Chinese name for the fruits of Kadsura chinensis (Schizandra chinensis, Baill.) is identical with the Japanese character above translated, Gome, -see, and means in both languages five tasted seeds. The berries are bound in a viscid mucus. | ||||