Rubber - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 44088 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 151.01 EUPHORBIACEAE Hevea brasiliensis | Entry Book Number | 99.1898 | |
| Artefact Name | Rubber | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Trinidad and Tobago | TDWG Region | Trinidad and Tobago | ||
| Parts Held | Rubber | Geography Description | Trinidad | ||
| Uses | RubberUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Hart JH | Donor No | |||
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| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Reported upon by Messrs Hecht, Levis & Kahn under date 12.7.98 as follows :- 'Quality excellent in every respect clean, strong and dry. This rubber would be readily saleable in this market and would at the present moment command a very high, price probably about 3/- to 3/2 per lb perhaps even a little more' Extract from letter from Mr Hart, Dated Trinidad 22.6.98. The course adopted to obtain the rubber was as follows:- 'The rough bark is first spoke-shaved off, so as to obtain a clean surfa, ce without injuring the cambrium. At the upper part of the surface thus exposed, longitudinal slits were made some four or five inches long and sufficiently deep to reach to the xylem. Streams of latex then commenced to run down on the clean surface whic, h when partially dry were collected by the rolling into a ball every night for eight successive nights the latex starts afresh and can be collected in the morning, the quanity appears to be greater after rainfall. This comes without fresh cutting. The spe, cimen sent is collected from No 6359 & No 6360 mixed. The specimen of rubber sent with the specimens was collected in the same manner. One sample of rubber same var cult. in Ceylon in 1884. Tree about 15 years old No.6360 Second specimen of rubber The sam, e sent from Trinidad by Prestoe in 1879 to J.P. 6359 | ||||