Portion of plant - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 54325 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 79.01 AIZOACEAE Mesembryanthemum tortuosum | Entry Book Number | 143.1886 | |
| Artefact Name | Portion of plant | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | South Africa | TDWG Region | South Africa | ||
| Parts Held | Portion of plant | Geography Description | South Africa | ||
| Uses | Portion of plantUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Dr P MacOwan | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 06/10/1886 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: From the Botanic Garden, Cape Town. A masticatory - prepared by Hottentots & Bushmen in Camarron district, prepared in absence of tobacco. Mr Garwood Alston Jr. who sent it, declares that he found it produced incipient intoxication. The fre, sh plant leaves, root, stems, is fermented in a skin - pouch kept warm by contact with the body for some days & is then dried in the sun. Rec'd. Oct 6.1886. | ||||