Seeds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 54498 | |||||
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| No Image | 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 | ||||