Flowers - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 41210 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 8.01 NYMPHAEACEAE Nymphaea alba | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Flowers | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Iran | TDWG Region | Iran | ||
| Parts Held | Flowers | Geography Description | Persia | ||
| Uses | FlowersUse: MEDICINES - Circulatory System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Circulatory System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Cowan Dr JM | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1930 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Boiss.i.104; Fl.Br.Ind.i.114; Ph.Ind.i.70. These are the flowers of the white water lily found in ponds throughout Europe and Siberia. Nilufar is a name also applied to flowers of other water-lillies and sometimes to species of Ipomoea whic, h have blue flowers. Kamal. the flowers of a Nymphaea, is sold in drug shops in India; and occasionally the flowers of the Sacred or Egyptian Lotus (Nelumbium speciosum Linn.) are used medicinally, especially in China. (K.B. No 6.1931.p.328) The flowers h, ave cooling and astringent properties and are administered locally for fevers and chest troubles (C). | ||||