Indigo - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 60515 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Indigofera tinctoria | Entry Book Number | 116.1896 | |
| Artefact Name | Indigo | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Saint Lucia | TDWG Region | Saint Lucia | ||
| Parts Held | Indigo | Geography Description | St Lucia | ||
| Uses | IndigoUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Moore JC | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Grown in the Island of St Lucia. Valued at about 2s per lb. Indigo prepared from plants Label source: Indigo prepared by Mr JC Moore from plants grown in the Bot Gard St Lucia West Indies. 'The leaves are fermented in a large wooden cask fo, r 16 hours or so then the liquid run off into two smaller casks beaten for 3-4 hrs. The precipitate did not form in less time, the beating being done in the morning from 9-12 or thereabouts, the liquid was left till the following morning befor being run o, ff. The indigo meed ? was them put in bags to strain off as much water as possible and afterwards dried in the shade on boards giving the sample as here represented. | ||||