Stems - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 49552 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 106.00 APOCYNACEAE Apocynum venetum | Entry Book Number | 68.1885 | |
| Artefact Name | Stems | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Afghanistan | TDWG Region | Afghanistan | ||
| Parts Held | Stems | Geography Description | Afghanistan, Gulsan | ||
| Uses | StemsUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Not defined | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Aitchison Surgeon Major | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: No 115 Extract of letter from Dr Aitchison to Sir Joseph Hooker, dated Gulsan March 8th 1883 - ' I have come across a find an asclepiad that grows in marshy land The stems are coated with natural tow this natural tow with the fruit and seed, s I have sent you by sample post. The natives of the surrounding parts especially of the Tier River say that ordinary twine and rope is made from the fibre but that a tribe of Turko.?. called Kazak east of Bokhera who live at a place called Kalla manufac, tures cloth from this fibre. The natives here call that cloth Kalau (?) the plant is called Dunb-e-roba (?) (Tail of Fox) or Dumb-e-Gos-alla (Tail of Calf)' The bark of the root stock is employed for tanning or rather preparing skins to hold water Label s, ource: Letter Ide & Christie, Fibre Esparto & General Produce Brokers dated July 2nd 1901, JR Jackson Esq RBG Kew, Dear Sir, I beg to return thanks for the trouble you have taken and for information given in your favour of today. The dried stems you sen, t appear almost identical to us with a hemp plant and we should not place the value of the fibre even if perfectly decorticated at over 15 .16 pounds sterling per ton. Yours (unreadable) | ||||