Resin - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 59747 | |||||
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Plant Name | 57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Hymenaea courbaril | Entry Book Number | 14.1851 | |
| Artefact Name | Resin | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Resin | Geography Description | Brazil, Para, Santarem | ||
| Uses | ResinUse: MATERIALS - Other Materials/Chemicals User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Other Materials/Chemicals | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Spruce, Richard | Donor No | 54 | ||
| Donor Date | 07/03/1851 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Spruce, Richard | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Source: Museum Entry book 1847-55, p 87:Of the Julahu- a large leguminous tree in the forests of Santarem and Obidos.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASource: Spruce, R. (1851-1855) Uses of Amazon plants. Journals from Barra to the Orinoco, from Barra to Tarapoto and notes on the use, s of Amazon plants and on cryptograms, p23.: Used as a varnish. In Minas an emulsion of copal, sugar and water is a remedy for chronic coughs. The seeds form a sweetish starchy envelope which is also considered pectoral. The gum-resin which distils fr, om cracks in bark and is sometimes found in lumps inside legumes, soon congeals in into a yellowish mass. | ||||