Plant - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 51603 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Helichrysum serpyllifolium | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Plant | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | South Africa | TDWG Region | South Africa | ||
| Parts Held | Plant | Geography Description | Cape of Good Hope | ||
| Uses | PlantUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Paris Exhib | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1855 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: This species also appears to possess demulcent and emollient properties, and to be of service in the various diseases of the chest. It goes by the name Hottentot's tea, and grows near the water courses on the Cape Mountains, has a pleasant, smell and is much liked by the coloured people, who infuse it as tea. Sometimes the Helichrysum auriculatum Less., is used for the same purpose, and under similar circumstances. | ||||