Fibre and rope - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 43275 | |||||
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Plant Name | 153.05 MORACEAE Ficus bengalensis | Entry Book Number | 64.1878 | |
| Artefact Name | Fibre and rope | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Fibre and rope | Geography Description | Berar | ||
| Uses | Fibre and ropeUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Indian Forest Department 1878 | Donor No | C981 | ||
| Donor Date | 18/10/1878 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Common in India and celebrated chiefly on account of its mode of extention, by sending down rootlets from the branches to the ground, in which they secure themselves and so extend the tree over a very extensive area. One tree has been desc, ribed as large enough to shelter a regiment of cavalry, another as capable of affording shade for 20,000 men. Banyan trees are produced mostly from seeds left by birds in the crowns of Palm trees, where they vegetate, send down branches to the earth and, eventually bury the trunk of the palm in their substance. Palms, thus growing through the Banyan and appearing above its top, are regarded with reverence by the Hindus. | ||||