- Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 60057 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Borbonia pinifolia | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Vernacular Name | ||||
| Iso Country | South Africa | TDWG Region | South Africa | ||
| Parts Held | Geography Description | South Africa | |||
| Uses | Use: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Stephens HP | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1927 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Opuscular source: Sample of Kaffir tea, Henry P Stevens, Laboratories, 15 Borough High Street, London Bridge, SE1. Sample consists of leaves and twigs of a leguminous plant either Borbonia pinifolia or a species of Aspalathus. Borbonia is the plant fro, m which Rooibos tea is obtained. Asphalathus tenuifolia DC is also used for tea in S Africa. The leaves being very similar to Rooibos but black when prepared for use. LaB 10.6.27 | ||||