Fruits - Specimen details

Fruits - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 48573

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Plant Name 114.01 SOLANACEAE Withania coagulans Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Fruits Vernacular Name
Iso Country India TDWG Region India
Parts Held Fruits Geography Description India, Bombay
Uses FruitsUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
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Donor India Museum Donor No
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Notes: Label source: A description of the plant and its uses will be found in the Pharm of India. The fruit is sold in Bombay shops; it is about the size, shape and colour of a dried cherry; skin smooth and shining, reddish brown, much shrivelled. It contains, a large number of flattened reniform seeds of a light reddish brown colour, and about one eighth of and inch long; these are sticky from the presence of a small quantity of brown pulp; the testa is reticulated. Kaknuj has a fruity odour and hardly any t, aste. Dymock - Pharm Journ.

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