Substance found of Leaves and Flowers - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 46258 | |||||
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Plant Name | 123.00 MYOPORACEAE Eremophila fraseri | Entry Book Number | 38.1890 | |
| Artefact Name | Substance found of Leaves and Flowers | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Australia | TDWG Region | Australia | ||
| Parts Held | Substance found of Leaves and Flowers | Geography Description | Western Australia | ||
| Uses | Substance found of Leaves and FlowersUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Phytologic Museum of Melbourne | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1889 | Donor Notes | Mueller Baron F vonx0Dx0A | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: It is beaten into a mass, heated over a fire, and used by the aborigines as a cement for fixing portions of their tools together. The aborigines of W Australia collect the young leaves and flower buds of this plant, beat them up into a mass, , heat that over a fire in order to obtain a sticky substance for fixing portions of their tools to each other. Mossingham (WE). Likely to be used for fixing sharp stones to their weapons. | ||||