Bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 55058 | |||||
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Plant Name | 99.01 LECYTHIDACEAE Lecythis sp | Entry Book Number | 65.1850 | |
| Artefact Name | Bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Bark | Geography Description | Brazil, Para, Santarem | ||
| Uses | BarkUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Wood | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Spruce, Richard | Donor No | 47 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1850 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Spruce, Richard | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Bark of the Pao d'Arco for cigars. (Prepared near the Barra de Rio Negro) Two cigars & a roll of fifty strips of bark. This has only lately come into use. It is considered superior to Tauari for cigars, and the inner white surface bears w, riting on exceedingly well. A French gentleman here is about to export a quantity of it to France. Kew Journal of Botany p.175. Pao d' Arco is a name applied to Tecoma speciosa DC. & Bignonia lencocylon L. in Brazil.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASource: Spruce, R. (1855) DomesticU, ses. Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (pp31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p36: Use of thin layers of bark under name Tauarí seems to have sprung up on the Amazon. As Indian names refer chiefly to properties; the same tree may have 2 or more names. Thu, severy Pao d'Arco is also a Tauarí, but some Tauarí are also Carlanka- Sapucayux0Dx0Ax0Dx0A | ||||