Nutmegs attacked with mould - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 45376 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 141.00 MYRISTICACEAE Myristica fragrans | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Nutmegs attacked with mould | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Nutmegs attacked with mould | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Nutmegs attacked with mouldUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Spencer Low Dr | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1928 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Spencer Low (Ministry of Health). Letter 445, 1923, xv p 133 The present sample of nutmegs appears to be similar to the previous one as far as I saw it. There are a few cracked specimens, which when split show the presence of a species of, Eurobium, as in the previous sample - a mould common on all kinds of vegetable substances under damp conditions. The nutmegs are certainly not of first quality, but the proportion of moulded ones seems hardly sufficient to condemn them as quite unsaleab, le. EMW 8.7.1923 | ||||