Oil nuts - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 44489 | |||||
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Plant Name | 151.01 EUPHORBIACEAE Ricinodendron rautanenii | Entry Book Number | 102.1862.24 | |
| Artefact Name | Oil nuts | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Malawi | TDWG Region | Malawi | ||
| Parts Held | Oil nuts | Geography Description | East Africa, Shire Highlands | ||
| Uses | Oil nutsUse: MATERIALS - Lipids User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Lipids | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Dr Livingstone's African Expedition | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 16/09/1862 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Kirk Dr | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Mosioa tunya, Victoria Falls. They yield a large quantity of sweet fluid oil. Cultivated by the Batoka a tree with heavy head much branched like a stags horn. The leaf is palinate pubescent. Copy of accompanying label as far as can be d, eciphered. Oil not named A13 (See Fig 323) This is from the hills of the Shire Cataracts, it grows also near Lake Nyassa. See Fl Trop Afr vi.i. p 746 JHH | ||||