Chinese root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 51561 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Gynura pseudo-china | Entry Book Number | 14.1928 | |
| Artefact Name | Chinese root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Sri Lanka | TDWG Region | Sri Lanka | ||
| Parts Held | Chinese root | Geography Description | Ceylon | ||
| Uses | Chinese rootUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Alston AG | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: 14.1928 Herb (Alston) - With reference to your letter of 27th October for which I thank you I certainly agree with Mr Fischer that Gynura lycopersicifolia requires splitting up. I have now found out much more about No 3. It is cultivated f, or the tubers which are used in native medicine and called China-mul; (Chinese root) or Ala-bet (Medicinal Yam) by the Sinhalese and Paranki-paddai (Dutch-bark) by the Jaffna Tamils. I am sending some of the tubers from a native drug-shop also a scrap of, fresh root of which I will send more later The Sinhalese think it comes from China. My No 600 was no doubt an escape. Trimen considered this to be G.pseudo-china DC. (not of the Fl. Brit.Ind.) March 1928 (sd.) AWG Alston, Ceylon Dept Agric. | ||||