Bark - Specimen details

Bark - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 55058

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 TauarĂ­ 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 TauarĂ­, but some TauarĂ­ are also Carlanka- Sapucayux0Dx0Ax0Dx0A

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