Part of vine with fruit and cotton - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 48647 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 113.01 CONVOLVULACEAE Ipomoea bombycina | Entry Book Number | 11.1914 | |
| Artefact Name | Part of vine with fruit and cotton | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Mexico | TDWG Region | Mexico | ||
| Parts Held | Part of vine with fruit and cotton | Geography Description | Mexico, Northern America, North and Central Mexico | ||
| Uses | Part of vine with fruit and cottonUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Cope Stuart R | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Dr David Thomatis | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: Letter 83,1914: ix. p 39 Copy of letter from Dr David Thomatis - Estacion Experimentale de Agriculture Tropicale, Tapanatepee, Mexico to Mr Stuart R Cope, 33 Great Tower Street, London E.C. dated 10th January 1914. My Dear Mr Cope, I co, nfirm my last of 5th Dec alto (?). I received your letter giving account of fibre etc. Yesterday I posted you two little packets of samples (registered); one is a display of the vine and leaves and bud and young flowers and young green bunch of capsules a, nd also a ripe branch of capsules with ripe cotton in small bolls of the new climbing wild cotton I found in these forests. This display on a cardboard I hope will be sufficient to determine by the Kew authorities the exact classification of the plant. F, rom its flowers it is a Convolvulaceae, and of course being a vine (like ivy) it is a Ipomoea. In the other packet I put several bunches, some green immature, others fully matured with cotton. You will see how they are stuck to the vine which grows up, trees for over 20 feet making lateral branches all bearing bunches of capsules, which sometimes are over 20 and give a curious appearance to the supporting tree from the ripe white bunches of cotton. If it is a new plant, I hope they will attach my name.T, he seeds in the bolls grow easily and I have a small nursery here of young plants from seed. The staple of the cotton is fair, I believe quite equal to 'Good Middling' and I am engaged to improve it by special culture so as to make it a good class of cott, on. I suggest to grow this cotton among other cultures as Rubber, Cacao, etc. The vine has underground a kind of tuber like sweet potato, both vine and tuber when alive contain a kind of white milk like sweet potatoes, but no caucho. Please obtain the o, pinion of the Kew authorities. The plant is perennial, part of the vine dies every year but germinates again. Signed David Thomatis. | ||||