Flower buds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 41998 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 4.01 MAGNOLIACEAE Magnolia stellata | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Flower buds | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Japan | TDWG Region | Japan | ||
| Parts Held | Flower buds | Geography Description | Japan, Eastern Asia, Asia Temperate | ||
| Uses | Flower budsUse: SOCIAL USES - Smoking Materials/Drugs User: Man | TDWG use | SOCIAL USES - Smoking Materials/Drugs | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 16 E 5 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/11/1878 | Donor Notes | Christy Thosx0Dx0A | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Shin-ee (4), Magnolia stellata, Sin-i, Porter Smith, Chinese Mat. Med. p.142 Japanese. Consists of very young flower buds of this tree. The two outer scales are smooth, and the two inner are covered with a dense coat of silky hairs; when, these are removed the flower in a very rudimentary state may be traced. The taste is bitter and aromatic; of odour there is almost none. According to Dr Porter Smith, a kind of snuff is made of the powdered drug was formerly used in China. It is proba, bly imported from that country?? | ||||