Resin - Specimen details

Resin - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 59747

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
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
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.

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