Roots (Spurious blood-root) - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 55699 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 10.00 PAPAVERACEAE Sanguinaria canadensis | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Roots (Spurious blood-root) | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Roots (Spurious blood-root) | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Roots (Spurious blood-root)Use: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 1359 | ||
| Donor Date | 11/07/1896 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Four types of root : 1. S. canadensis - Bloodroot. Showing annual growth, and traces of leaf scars, and transverse section. 2. Chamaelirium carolinianum - False blood root - Showing annual growth and endogenous character of rootlets. Young, er rhizome - Transverse section. 3. Potentilla tormentilla - Torentil - Rhizome, and transverse section. 4. Polygonum bistorta - Bistort - Rhizome transverse. The student should observe the rhizome of Sanguinaria - a. The cylindrical shape and comparative, absence of roots, b. The colour of the transverse section. c. The inconspicuous wood-bundles. The rhizome of Chaloeirium is easily detected, by the greyish surface perforated with small holes, and by the transverse section exhibiting a well defined cen, tral column. | ||||
| Determinations: | 10.00 PAPAVERACEAE Sanguinaria canadensis 134.00 POLYGONACEAE Polygonum bistorta 176.00 MELANTHIACEAE Chamaelirium carolinianum 999.99 FAMILY UNKNOWN Popentilla tormentilla | ||||