Beans - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 60888 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Phaseolus lunatus | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Beans | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Beans | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | BeansUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Tod A & R Ltd | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1928 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Sample from A & R Tod Ltd. Flour Miller Leith. Opuscular source: June 25th 1928, Sir, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated Junr 20th, (No. 65457). Accompanied by a copy of the letter rec'd. from Messrs A & R Tod Ltd togeth, er with a sample of beans for report. An examination of the beans points to their being Phaseolus lunatus L., not Phaseolus vulgaris L., the sample forwared being identical with samples of the former among our collections known comonly as 'Rangoon', 'Burm, a' or 'Java' beans. Beans of this sp. (P. lunatus) in a raw state usually contain prussic acid, the quantity varying with the variety and age of the seed. This prussic acid is dissipated when the beans are boiled but is present in meal when the beans have, been ground in a raw state as feeding stuff for livestock. All forms of P lunatus are no doubt debarred as food by the terms of the fertilizers and feeding stuffs act. Further information P lunatus will be found in;- 'Plants poisonous to Livestock' by HC, Long Cambridge University Press 'The selection of Burma Beans' (Phaseolus lunatus) For Low Prussic Acid Content' Memoirs of Dept of Agric In India, Vol 1 X no.1 Nov. 1925 pp1-37. 'Prussic Acid In Burma Beans' Agric Research Institute, Pusa, Bull 79.I ams, ir your obedient servant, The Director. | ||||