Rhizome - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 56325 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 176.00 MELANTHIACEAE Veratrum album | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Rhizome | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Rhizome | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | RhizomeUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 17 | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Three samples. 1. Veratrum album, root, 2. False veratrum, rhizome, and 3. Asphodelus albus, False white Hellebore root. Diagram of white hellebore section. The student should observe 1. That the rhizome is usually entire, 2. That the roots, are greyish in colour, and not often much shrivelled transversely, and 3. The characters of the transverse section; and should compare the drug with the American veratrum. | ||||