Fruits - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 51321 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Arctium majus | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruits | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Japan | TDWG Region | Japan | ||
| Parts Held | Fruits | Geography Description | Japan, Eastern Asia, Asia Temperate | ||
| Uses | FruitsUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Christy T | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Gobo See (25) - Arctium lappa L. Syn Lappa major, Gaertn. Fr. et SAv. Vol ... (missing) p.262 ; Gobo, Umma Busuki ; Koempf. Amoen p.828 ; Thunb. Fl. Jap. p.304 ; Kouma Tor... Bokoudsi, Phonzou Zoufou, vol XV. fol 23 ; Gobo, So mokou Zousset, z, vol. XV. fig.33. The small fruits of this plant are about a quarter of an inch long, linear, somewhat flattened, about one line wide at the apex, and tapering thence to the base. The taste is bitter and slightly pungent. They are of a greyish brown col, our, speckled with minute black dots. In Japan the burdock is cultivated as a vegetable under the name of gobo, and the root is used to put in soups. For this purpose it is taken up before the flowering stem appear (Koempfer).It is probably identical with, the Arctium edule od Siebold. I have no information concerning the uses of this seed in Japan. Rather more than one hundred years ago they were used in this country in doses of one drachm as a diuretic and aperient, and the root is still used by herbalis, ts in this country as an alterative in skin diseases and syphilis. The Japanese character for 'see' is exactly the same as the Chinese for 'tsz' and stands for 'seed' in both cases. | ||||