Fruit - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 42001 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 4.06 SCHISANDRACEAE Schizandra sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruit | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Japan | TDWG Region | Japan | ||
| Parts Held | Fruit | Geography Description | Japan | ||
| Uses | FruitUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 21 C 5 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/11/1878 | Donor Notes | Christy Thomasx0Dx0A | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: Gome See (6):- Schizandra nigra Max. Syn. Madzi-ssa, Maximowiez, Diag. Pl. Nov. Jap et Mandsh. Dec.x.p.370. This drug consists of reddish or black wrinkled fruits about the size of a pea, each containing two flattened kidney-shaped seeds. T, he seeds have a 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 given by Franchet and Savatier as the Japane, se name for Schizandra chinensis, Baill. That plant, however, has smooth seeds. Maximowiez, in the work above quoted, states that S.nigra is at once distinguished from all the other species of this genus by the black 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 in October and is considered edible. The Chine, se 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-taste, d seeds. The berries abound in a viscid mucus. | ||||