Tuber - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 49353 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 107.00 ASCLEPIADACEAE Raphionacme sp | Entry Book Number | 72.1907 | |
| Artefact Name | Tuber | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Kenya | TDWG Region | Kenya | ||
| Parts Held | Tuber | Geography Description | Kenya, Africa, East Tropical Africa, Lake Nyanza | ||
| Uses | TuberUse: MATERIALS - Latex/Rubber User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Latex/Rubber | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Brett Spencer | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Rubber extracted from one tuber of R. utilis Laboratory Royal Gardens Kew 1908. 1898. See letter 234.1907 Tuber said to yield good rubber. Total rubber extracted from one tuber of R. utilis, amounting to about 17 per cent of the dry-weight, of the tuber after extraction of resins etc. in spirit. | ||||
| Determinations: | 107.00 ASCLEPIADACEAE Raphionacme sp 107.00 ASCLEPIADACEAE Raphionacme utilis Brown & Stapf | ||||