Havozo Bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 46708 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 143.01 LAURACEAE | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Havozo Bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Seychelles | TDWG Region | Seychelles | ||
| Parts Held | Havozo Bark | Geography Description | Seychelles | ||
| Uses | Havozo BarkUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 2 E 2 | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: Hernandia peltata ? Havozo - a dull brown bark, of which the inner surface is finely striated longitudinally and the outer minutely cracked and having small warts sparingly scattered over it. A transverse section shows a thin epidermis, ben, eath which lie several strata of stony cells; these give to the middle of the bark a granular texture, and at right angles to them thin medullary rays give a radiate appearance to the innermost portion of the bark. The odour of the cut or bruised bark is, very powerful and exactly resembles sassafras, for which it might probably form an efficient substitute in native materia medica. It probably belongs to the Lauraceae and may possibly be the Hernandia peltata, or Sassafras mauritiana, Boj. (Hort. Maur. p., 273). See Barkers Flora Maur. and Seychelles p. 284. | ||||