Fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 49264 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 107.00 ASCLEPIADACEAE Calotropis procera | Entry Book Number | 121.1890 | |
| Artefact Name | Fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Pakistan | TDWG Region | Pakistan | ||
| Parts Held | Fibre | Geography Description | Pakistan, Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent | ||
| Uses | FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Not defined | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Constable FC | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 17/10/1890 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Sample sent to Ide and Christy for report. Oct. 18. 1890. F.C. Constable Esq. ' a new fibre from Sind. Plant not known. Large quantities can be easily raised in Sind.' After Hydrolysis ? ? methol. Cellulose 70 % Ultimate fibre length 21 mm?, Rec'd. Oct 29 1890. Reported upon by Ide & Christy 20th Oct 1890: Quite a novelty and hence difficult to isolate. Commercially it would certainly find buyers in our market. It would be advisable that ??? shipment of 10 - 15 tons be made. It might command, anything from 15 to 28 pounds sterling per ton in London. Might ? ? compete with Italian Hemp. | ||||