Germinating Seeds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 44029 | |||||
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Plant Name | 151.01 EUPHORBIACEAE Hevea brasiliensis | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Germinating Seeds | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Germinating Seeds | Geography Description | Brazil, Southern America | ||
| Uses | Germinating SeedsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Wickham HA | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1876 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Wickham HA | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/00/1876 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | In 1876 Wickham sent 70,000 rubber seeds from Brazil to Kew. Less than 2,500 germinated but those seedlings were sent to Sri Lanka and Malaysia, formaing the basis of the Far Eastern rubber industry (Plants+People catalogue).x0Dx0Ax0Dx0APlants + People exhibition, Museum No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016. The seeds are in two parts. A couple were bottled for the PLants + People exhibition and subsequently went ito the herbarium Spirit collection. Two have remained bottled and in B1. | ||||