Bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 41990 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 4.01 MAGNOLIACEAE Michelia champaca | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Bark | Geography Description | India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical | ||
| Uses | BarkUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 3 B 1 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum No: 12 Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: The fresh bark is externally covered with a light brown epidermis, which is easily removed, beneath this it is of a reddish brown colour mottled with longitudinal green stripes (not visible in the dry bark), and pale yellowish scars of very, irregular form, the inner surface is yellowish and fibrous. The bark is feebly bitter, and has a slight aroma, its minute structure is chiefly remarkable for numerous bundles of liber cells and for aggregations of large stony cells of a bright yellow co, lour, the cells of the parenchyma contain much starch. Champa bark is mentioned as a febrifuge in the Indian Pharmacopoeia, but I have not heard of its being tried in this neighbourhood, from its very feeble bitterness I should not think it likely to be, of much use. Mentioned as a febrifuge in the Indian Pharm. | ||||