Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 53858 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 84.01 RUBIACEAE Rubia tinctoria | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Iran | TDWG Region | Iran | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | Persia | ||
| Uses | RootUse: MATERIALS - Tannins/Dyestuffs User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Tannins/Dyestuffs | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Cowan Dr JM | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1930 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Ait. ; Boiss. iii. 17 ; Post 224 ; Schl ; Ph.Ind. The madder plant grows from Persia to Spain. Aitchison says it is cultivated throughout the country in East Persia and takes three years for the proper size of the root to form. It is largel, y grown at Anar-dara, Koin, and Yezd, whence the root is exported in quanity to Herat. From Herat it is re-exported in all directions to Afghanistan proper and India, besides in some bulk, to Turkestan. It affords a well known red dye for carpets. The roo, t is used as a dye-stuff and a drug throughout the East. (K.B. 1931 p.336) | ||||