Rod made from paste - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 62373 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 51.01 SAPINDACEAE Paullinia cupana | Entry Book Number | 65.1850 | |
| Artefact Name | Rod made from paste | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Rod made from paste | Geography Description | Brazil, Para, Santarem | ||
| Uses | Rod made from pasteUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Spruce, Richard | Donor No | 39 | ||
| Donor Date | 12/12/1850 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Spruce, Richard | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Pao de Guarana prepared chiefly by the Manhe Indians (inhabiting the banks of the Rio Manhe which enters the Amazon between the Tapajoz and the Madeira) from the roasted and pounded seeds of the Guarana. It is used throughout the Province o, f Para, and still more extensively in the mines of Cuyaba in Matto Grosso, in the preparation of a cooling beverage and as a supposed preventive of all manner of diseases.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASource: Spruce, R. (1908) IN: Wallace, A. ed. Notes of a botanist on the Amazon&, Andes : being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga and Pastasa ; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and theshor, es of the Pacific, during the years 1849-1864 / by Richard Spruce ; edited and condensed by Alfred Russell Wallace, with a biographical introduction, portrait, seventy-one illustrations and seven maps 2, p 448: Another powerful nervous tonic and sub-nar, cotic is cupana or guarana, which isprepared from the seed of a twining plant of the family of Sapindacaceae. The Indians scrape the seeds, mix them with flour of cassava envelop the mass in plantain leaves and set it to ferment in water till it acquiresa, saffron- yellow colour. This yellow paste dried in the sun and diluted in water is taken in morning as kind of tea. [Considered] a preservative against the malignant bilious fevers which are the scourge of that region.x0Dx0APlants + People exhibition Museum, No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016. | ||||