Fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 51562 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Gynura bicolor | Entry Book Number | 23.1895 | |
| Artefact Name | Fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Fibre | Geography Description | North Formosa | ||
| Uses | FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Henry Prof | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Sent to A Henry by Mr Morse from Tamsui - Letter dated 21 June 1894 - My Dear Henry I send you herewith a sample of the fibre of which the Mountain Savages make cloth, and I am promised that I shall have the flower. I am not sure however o, f getting it, as it has to go from savage to Pryohoan, then to Chinese and then to me. I have seen much of the plant I assume to be G.bicolor with leaves green above and bright red below, used as spinach; I have seen it growing and on way to market, but I, suppose it is not allowed to flower; I have seen no flowers. There is another spinach usually growing with and often marketed with this, having the same colours, but the red on both sides of stem half, and green on both sides of tip half of leaf skins (d, rawing to illustrate this); the leaf being broader than the other. Hot and dry just now; I suppose you are having our rain. I hope you have good news from Mrs Henry. Yours truely HB Morse | ||||