Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 49411 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 107.00 ASCLEPIADACEAE Asclepias curassavica | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | India, Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent, Maharashtra, Poona, Botanical Gardens | ||
| Uses | RootUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 25 B 2 | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: Common in gardens, and in some places has run wild. It has a woody branching root, with light brown bark and numerous fibres, wood white, bark thin. When fresh it exudes a milky juice. The taste is bitter and somewhat acrid. A section of th, e root bark placed under the microscopic shows from without inwards, 1st a suberous layer ; 2nd, several rows of lage cells containing conglomerate raphides with starch and granular matter ; 3rd, a vascular zone, two or three large dotted vessels being si, tuated at the cambrium end of each medullary ray where it projects into the bark. Entry-book source: Imported as ipecacuanha 1877 | ||||