Roots - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 57144 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 58.01 ROSACEAE Geum japonicum | Entry Book Number | 74.1878 | |
| Artefact Name | Roots | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Japan | TDWG Region | Japan | ||
| Parts Held | Roots | Geography Description | Japan | ||
| Uses | RootsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Thos Christy | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1879 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Syn Daikonso, So mokou Zoussetz, vol ix fig 41; Thunb. Fl. Jap. p.220; Fr et Sav. vol i p.128 This root consists of a short central woody portion, about half-inch long and one third of an inch in diameter, almost concealed by a dense tuft o, f slender slightly furrowed rootlets, which are two or three inches long, and about the thickness of ordinary twine. The root is pale brown internally with a darker horny centre (not purple as in G.urbanum). The taste is astringent and has the same pecul, iar clove-like character as that of Geum urbanum. The odour also faintly resembles cloves. It was this characteristic that led to its identification, which was confirmed by a comparison of the Japanese characters with those in the So mpkou Zoussetz, by Mr, Takemura. The properties, judging from the taste must be aromatic and astringent. See-yoh-bei grows by roadsides and margins of fields and flowers from August to October. | ||||