Root, Fruits and rubber from roots - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 49218 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 107.00 ASCLEPIADACEAE Asclepias stellifera | Entry Book Number | 152.1908 | |
| Artefact Name | Root, Fruits and rubber from roots | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | South Africa | TDWG Region | South Africa | ||
| Parts Held | Root, Fruits and rubber from roots | Geography Description | Transvaal, Africa, Southern Africa | ||
| Uses | Root, Fruits and rubber from rootsUse: MATERIALS - Latex/Rubber User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Latex/Rubber | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Burtt-Davy J | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: To His Excellency, The Rt.Hon The Earl of Selborne, H.B.M. High Commissioner for South Africa, Johannesburg. Collection of Rubber Plant Specimens, referred to in Mr J. Ivens Ferraz letter of 25/09/1908. From Government Botanist, Pretoria 1., Piece of dry root, showing filaments of rubber. 2. Rubber extracted from a similar piece (1), after maceration (notice enormous proportion of rubber. 3. Ball of rubber extracted by maceration (much spoiled by allowing mildew to form). 4. Pods and seeds., 5. Last seasons seeds for experiments in planting now. 6. Root and plant in flower, freshly collected. (This is only part of one root, growing vertically and widening with depth). 7. Most important sample - drop of latex from laceration in sample 6. coagu, lated into pure healthy rubber on the 25.9.08. | ||||