Seeds - Specimen details

Seeds - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 54498

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Plant Name 75.00 CUCURBITACEAE Citrullus colocynthis Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Seeds Vernacular Name
Iso Country India TDWG Region India
Parts Held Seeds Geography Description India
Uses SeedsUse: NON-VERTEBRATE POISONS - Arthropoda User: Not defined TDWG use NON-VERTEBRATE POISONS - Arthropoda
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Fleetwood-Hesketh Major H Donor No
Donor Date 00/09/1933 Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: Letter 708 1933 Major H Fleetwood Hesketh, Stocken Hall, Stretton, Oakham. 1. ix.33 - seed for identification (thought to keep moths away in packages of skins). Dried pulp & seeds of a gourd put in a muslin bag and placed in package sent fr, om India. 5.ix.33 probably 'Colocynth' JHH Mr Holland, Museum IV - the seeds agree with those of C.colocynthis, I cannot find, however, any record of insecticidal or insectiful properties 4.ix.1933

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