Fruit - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 47149 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 141.00 MYRISTICACEAE Ochocoa gabonensis | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruit | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Gabon | TDWG Region | Gabon | ||
| Parts Held | Fruit | Geography Description | Gabon | ||
| Uses | FruitUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 21 E 9 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Voigt Dr A Hamburg Date: 00/10/1903x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: These fruits are stated by Dr Voigt to be exported from West Africa, and have been described under the name of Ochocoa gabonensis Pierre, and by Warburg as Scyphocephalium ochocoa. The fruits are about 1 to 1.5 inches in width, and 1/2 to 5, /8 inches in thickness, with a hard, thin, brittle shell. They have a circular basal scar, and internally resemble a areca nut, but are of softer substance and are more nearly aligned to the nutmeg. These fruits belong to the N.O. Myristicaceae and were i, mported into France as an oil seed. According to a note in the Pharm. Journ. 4,3, p.380, the fruits are variously referred to S. kombo, Warb., and those from the Cameroons to S. chrysothrix Warb. Ochoco nuts are stated to yield 61% of a fat, melting at 70, degrees. J Moeller identified Ochoco seed as a species of Dryobalanops, 'Dingl. Polytechn.' June 1880 432. It would appear, therefore, that the name is given to the produce of several distinct trees, the Ochoco fruits of the Gabon being derived from O. g, abonensis Pierre. | ||||