Flowers - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 57704 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 58.01 ROSACEAE Prunus persica | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Flowers | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Japan | TDWG Region | Japan | ||
| Parts Held | Flowers | Geography Description | Japan | ||
| Uses | FlowersUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 16 F 8 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/11/1878 | Donor Notes | Christy Thosx0Dx0A | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Syn. Too, Thunb. Jap.,p.199 ; T`au Porter Smith, Chinese Mat Med p.168. These flowers evidently belong to some species of Amygdalus, and are called by Mr Takemura 'Peach flowers'. They are appearently derived from some cultivated species, s, ince the majority of the blossoms are partially double. Kah means flowers, and Tau or Too is a sort of generic name both in Japanese and Chinese for fruits of the peach kind, and Biak means white, according to Mr Takemura, so that some variety of Amygdal, us persica with white flowers may be the source of Biak-Tau-Kah. The dried flowers however have a slight pinkish tinge. Thunberg mentions a variety of peach with simple white flowers called 'Sato Momu'. | ||||