Bark - Specimen details

Bark - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 46668

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Plant Name 31.01 MALVACEAE Abutilon angustatum Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Bark Vernacular Name
Iso Country Madagascar TDWG Region Madagascar
Parts Held Bark Geography Description Madagascar
Uses BarkUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Fibres
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Pharm Soc GB Donor No 4 G 1
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Notes: Label source: Bark of a tree called Hafotra fotsy. This and a brown variety of Hafotra are used for making a coarse kind of cordage; and this kind (I believe both kinds) also for making a coarse kind of cloth. Label source: This occurs in the form of st, rips of white fibrous bark, very tough and difficult to break and consisting of liber only. It has a slight pungent odour; when chewed it has at first no taste, but a pungent acridity is slowly developed, which lasts for several hours and recalls the tast, e of mezereon so strongly that it seems probable that the bark is derived from a thymelaceous plant, not withstanding the fact that the plant received under the same name at Kew proves to be Abutilon angustatum Mart.

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