Flax - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 55453 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 34.01 LINACEAE Linum usitatissimum | Entry Book Number | 56.1917 | |
| Artefact Name | Flax | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Kenya | TDWG Region | Kenya | ||
| Parts Held | Flax | Geography Description | Kenya, Lumbwa District, Tropical East Africa | ||
| Uses | FlaxUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Wigglesworth & Co | Donor No | |||
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| Collector | Collector No | ||||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Flax No 5896, date 16.11.17 Extract from letter from Messrs Wigglesworth to Director dated 15.IX.1917 'We are pleased to advise you that we have just inspected a further consignment of flax from East Africa, which contains the longest and, best grown flax we have yet seen from this colony. For your information we enclose a small sample drawn from one of the bales and we no doubt you will agree with us that it is a splendid fibre and it is wonderful that such flax can be grown in a tropical, country'. | ||||