Flowers - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 50828 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 101.01 SAPOTACEAE Madhuca longifolia | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Flowers | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Flowers | Geography Description | East Indies | ||
| Uses | FlowersUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Edward Lockwood | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1877 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Letter from Lockwood, 17 Dorset Square, Regents Park. You asked me to send you a specimen of dried mahwa petals so I am sending you a small packet gathered in Mengleyr? April 1876. You will see how well the stuff keeps. Far better than an, y grain for instance. I should have sent you a sample before but I have been waiting to hear how the petals are reported on by those to whom I have sent samples for feeding cattle ? distilling. Mr Barttell of the zoological gardens is trying to experime, nt with these but I have not heard the result. My father in Oxfordshire who is a cattle feeder, says mahwa bark is pronounced first rate in his neighbourhood and a letter from Mr Haig, the distiller, says he has got 6.16 gallons of proof spirit per cwt., Can you put me in the way of getting a few tons of the stuff. I consider the spirit we got much superior to any molasses or sugar spirit I ever saw. I believe that mahwa in consequence of its unlimited supply, cheapness, keeping qualities, Saccharin qual, ities, certain yield, has a future before it. It has only to be swept up from the ground, shovelled into sacks and sent off. I have seen myself thousands of square miles covered with mahwa trees. The main portion of the petals at present feed the forest, birds and beasts. It is also a more certain crop than any fruit crop - a bad mahwa petal year was never known. I tell Dr Forbes that the Govt should do away with the opium trade and monopolize mahwa in its place. I wrote an account of the mahwa tree in, the Statistical Reporter (Calcutta), in (I think) Dec 1875. I remain yours faithfully, Ed. Lockwood. | ||||
| Determinations: | 101.01 SAPOTACEAE Madhuca longifolia (Koenig) Macbr. 101.01 SAPOTACEAE Madhuca indica Gmel. 131.01 CHENOPODIACEAE Bassia latifolia Roxb. | ||||