Bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 50895 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 101.01 SAPOTACEAE Mimusops elengi | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Bark | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | BarkUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Chantre C | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1877 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: See Dymock The bark is red woody and fibrous and has a thin grey epidermis studded with lichens; its general appearance when dry reminds one of red Cinchona, but the inner surface is marked with whitish stains as if it were mildewed. On bre, aking the bark these stains are seen to penetrate the substance to some depth; they are caused by the drying of the milky juice with which the tree abounds. Upon soaking a piece of dried bark in water it becomes coated with mucilage, and a milky fluid can, be squeezed out from its freshly cut surface. Microscopic examination discovers no distinctive characterists. Wowlee bark is bitter and astringent. I have no experience of its use. M.kauki, the adams fruit of Goa, has much the same properties. The olive, shaped berries of both trees are edible. | ||||