Seed - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 59012 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Entada spiralis | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Seed | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Malaysia | TDWG Region | Malaysia | ||
| Parts Held | Seed | Geography Description | Malaya | ||
| Uses | SeedUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Kloss Miss E | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1932 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: Note re specimens for name from Edith Kloss, Prottoe? Cornwall, Feb 2nd, 1932. 1. Large seed from a creeper 150 ft in length, and each 40 ft or so dropped a huge rosette, each seed being covered with a kind of poisonous looking green,, the seeds 15 in no. lying close to each other - in a big rosette form. Her son cut this off and in less than 10 days the green covering powdered away - the weight when cut off was nine pounds. Stem enclosed - which supported the rosette with tiny ovall, eaves, grey green. This creeper was in a plantation - now a rubber one - Lindens scandi - Johore. Her ? had seen one in Bozen? Java, and his father had roasted and eaten it and gone to sleep for 3 days. 2. The small seeds are from a sacred temple 45 m, iles from Sourabaya - and the Javanese refused to allow my friend to touch the seeds, but he did, the bloom is flame colour sometimes, sometimes coral red. Sent to curator to grow - near Brownea (cf coccinea) Label source: The large seed may be Entada, spiralis of which we have in the museum a model of a pod. The smaller suggests Brownea - JHH 4.ii.32. See letter M104/32. | ||||