Chinese Green Dye - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 62717 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 49.01 RHAMNACEAE Rhamnus chlorophorus | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Chinese Green Dye | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | China | TDWG Region | China | ||
| Parts Held | Chinese Green Dye | Geography Description | China | ||
| Uses | Chinese Green DyeUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 17 D 5 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Hanbury Collectionx0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Iten includes bundle of stems and vial of green dye extract - Pharm Journ Vol XVI p.213 Also several packets of seeds :- Graines du Rhamnus vison du R.tinctorius. From M Rondol 22.v.1857, Mr R has since told me this is Richlorophorus decais, ne DH. Seeds of Rhamnus chlorophorus Decaisne from a specimen given by Mr Fortune to Mr Hooker Herb at Kew but with no name. Vert de Chine, 1853 from M Rondot 22.v.1857 Rhamnus utilis Decaisne from M Rondot Baies de Hong-pi-chou Green Dye from China Oct18, 56 Green dye extract seeds of Rhamnus from M Rondot 22.v.1857 Opuscular source: Four letter, two in French Paris dated 27 Feb 1857 to D Hanbury from Propagation de la Foi, letter written in French Note sur la fabrrication du Lokao. D`apres les Procedes s, uivis a aze (a Chines au Sud de Kia-hin-fou) Dans le Tche-Kiang [Note sur une Couleur verte comme en Chine sous le nom de Lo-Kao - several pages long description in French Note - Stems of the tree producing the green dye. The decoction of the wood and jui, ce of the seeds of this the cultivated kind. Mixed with the ditto from the wild kind gives the green dye. Also copy from the Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India Calcutta 1855 Vol IX part 1 - Gives a description of the Chinese In, digo plant communicated by Robert Fortune Esq. | ||||