Concrete Milk - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 50890 | |||||
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Plant Name | 101.01 SAPOTACEAE Mimusops elata | Entry Book Number | 86.1849 | |
| Artefact Name | Concrete Milk | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Concrete Milk | Geography Description | Brazil, Para | ||
| Uses | Concrete MilkUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Spruce, Richard | Donor No | 21 | ||
| Donor Date | 28/12/1849 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Spruce, Richard | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Source: Spruce, R. (1855) Domestic Uses. Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (pp31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p37.: Thus bearing this name found north of Amazon upwards. Probably all belong to same genus of Sapotaceae. Trees seen at Para had leaves w, hich were veined like those of Lecoma rinoa. The fruit was said to be one of the most delicious of wild fruits. The species I found on mapping Guania have fruit of rather disagreeable taste. Milk also is not drinkable where that of Para is delicious, l, ike that of Cumá. Milk of another species growing on terre firme is considered better for glue, but this also has not a pleasant taste. All species seem to have a deep, dull heavy wood; that of terre firme much esteemed for canoes.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASource: Spruce, R, (1851-1855) Uses of Amazon plants. Journals from Barra to the Orinoco, from Barra to Tarapoto and notes on the uses of Amazon plants and on cryptograms, p 3: On Guaimi milk much used as a glue especially for fixing feather on verandas of Maqueiras. | ||||