Gum from an unknown tree - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 51096 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 101.01 SAPOTACEAE | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Gum from an unknown tree | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | South Africa | TDWG Region | South Africa | ||
| Parts Held | Gum from an unknown tree | Geography Description | South Africa | ||
| Uses | Gum from an unknown treeUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Chemist & Druggist | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1909 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: Letter from Chemist & Druggist to J Masters Hillier, Kew: Dear Sir, I send you by post a sample of a South African product obtained from a tree about 60 ft high, 'evidently belonging,' says a Johannesburg subscriber, 'to the Sapotaceae, order.' Our subscriber believes it to be a species of India rubber, but two rubber brokers in Mincing Lane declare that it is not rubber, one of them believing it to be a species of Euphorbia. Prehaps you'll be able to identify the specimen and to write u, s a brief note about it. I also send you a sample of an Indian drug from Bombay, called 'Epicocona' can you give us any information about this. I am yours faithfully. | ||||