Seeds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 43018 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 153.05 MORACEAE Clarisia racemosa | Entry Book Number | 39.1930 | |
| Artefact Name | Seeds | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Seeds | Geography Description | South America, Bahia | ||
| Uses | SeedsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Foreign Office | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: 4 different labels: From British Consul Bahia, per Foreign Office 20.11.30. Letter M441, 1930, named in Herb. by Mr Dandwith? 20.v.30 The nuts have tough fibrous shells from 0.1 to 0.2 ins thick, forming 46.4% of the entire nut. The avera, ge weight of the nuts was 17.6 grams, and the kernels 9.4 gs. The kernels contained 18.9 % of moisture and yielded on extraction with light petroleum 1.4 per cent of a solid yellowish brown fat, equivalent to a yield of 1.7% from the moisture free kernel, s. Owing to the very low yield of fat they would not be of commercial interest as a source of oil. Extract of letter Imp Inst. 7.7.1930. | ||||