Seedling plant - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 59420 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Caesalpinia bonduc | Entry Book Number | 74.1877 | |
| Artefact Name | Seedling plant | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | United Kingdom | TDWG Region | United Kingdom | ||
| Parts Held | Seedling plant | Geography Description | Great Britain, Probus?, Trehane | ||
| Uses | Seedling plantUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pinwill WSC | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 27/08/1877 | Donor Notes | Masters Dr (per)x0Dx0A | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: Seedling plant raised from a seed washed on shore in Festrol Bay, N Coast of Cornwall in Aug, 1876. Letter from Pinwill as follows - Dear sir, the seed from which the enclosed grew was found by me in August 76 as it was washed on shore in F, estrol Bay on the N coast of Cornwall - when planted in April it was of a bright hazel colour - extremely hard. What is it? etc. Opuscular source: Article from The Gardeners Chronicle Sat, Sept 8, 1877. p 304. A correspondent has lately forwarded us amo, st interesting waif from over the sea in the shape of a young plant of Caesalpinia or Guilandina bonduc, raised from a seed washed on shore in August, 1876. It has germinated well. The two sp of Guilandina are trailing leguminous plants, found in nearly, every tropical country, esp on the sea shore, their extensive distribution being caused by the transport of the seeds, which have an exceedingly hard impervious shell, from one country to another by means of oceanic currents. In the present instance the, seeds must have crossed the Atlantic probably from the West Indies. the average rate of Atlantic currents is given at 33 miles a day, same running at 60 miles per day. The seeds must probably have been a considerable time on the way. In Mr Darwins exp, eriments, out of 87 kinds of seeds 64 germinated after an immersion of 28 days in salt water, and a few survived after an immersion of 137 days. Ripe hazel nuts sank immediately, but when dried they floated for 90 days and afterwards germinated. Mr Darw, in concludes from his and Mr Martens experiments that the seed of about 10 per cent could be floated across a space of sea 900 miles in width and then germinate. Referring to this very plant amongst others Robert Brown remarks that the 2 conditions of de, velopment and protection of the embryo co-exist in so remarkable a degree that I have no doubt the seed of these plants could retain their vitality for a great length of time in the ocean or in the digestion of birds. Joseph Banks informs us that he rece, ived some years ago the drawing of a plant, which his correspondent assured him was raised from a seed found on the W coast of Ireland, and that the plant was Guilandina bonduc. | ||||