Roots - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 48577 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 114.01 SOLANACEAE Withania somnifera | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Roots | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Roots | Geography Description | Madras | ||
| Uses | RootsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: P.somnifera - Local name - Ashvagandha, The plant consists of a stout, long tapering woody root, an inch or more in diameter, surmounted by a knotted crown, from which spring several shrubby flexuose branches, which are generally round,andf, rom one to two feet long. The leaves are double, ovate variable in size, but not more than three inches long; flowers axillary, subsessile, crowded at the ends of the branches; corolla campanulate, yellowish green, very small; berry red, smooth, size of a, pea, covered by a membranaceous closely fitting calyx open at the apex; seeds numerous, yellowish white, reniform, laterally compressed about one-sixteenth of an inch long; testa honeycombed. The whole plant is covered with with small branched and pointe, d white hairs, which give it a hoary appearance. The odour is pungent and disagreeable, like the urine of horses; this is expressed in its native name Ashvagandha. The root consists of a twisted, white woody column, which is covered by a thickish soft bar, k, containing a good deal of red colouring matter, visible through the greyish epidermis. The microscopic characters are not in any way remarkable. The fresh root bark has the same odour as the plant, the leaves and fruit are a little bitter and nauseous., This drug must not be confounded with the Asgung of the Bazaars, described in the next article. We have no reliable information regarding the physiological action of P.somnifera Dymock Pharm Soc | ||||
| Determinations: | 114.01 SOLANACEAE Withania somnifera (L.) Dun. 114.01 SOLANACEAE Physalis somnifera L. | ||||