Fruit - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 62736 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 49.01 RHAMNACEAE Zizyphus jujuba | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruit | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | China | TDWG Region | China | ||
| Parts Held | Fruit | Geography Description | China, Hung Chow? | ||
| Uses | FruitUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 22 C 1 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Hanbury Collection Date: 00/00/1906x0Dx0AHanbury Sir Thos (Pres By)x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: The fruit of Zizyphus jujuba from Hungchow, the district in China that produces the best green tea. The fruit is called Meih tsau and is excellent for eating. Illegible words something about a kind of jujube that has fruits the size of a he, ns egg! See note!. Opuscular source: Letter from D Hanbury to Mr Holmes. Queen Annes Mansion, Westminster 29 May 1901. Dear Mr Holmes, Thankyou very much for the box of curious fruits and seeds safely to hand. These will greatly rejoice the heart of my f, riend. The striated surface of the jujubes is produced by the Chinese who make incisions with a knife and then plunge the fruits into honey after which it is dried, hence the name Meih (honey) tsau (jujube). I have no experience of the soporific effect of, these kernels and doubt it. I grow the zizyphus at Mortola but it is very inferior to this Chinese variety and scarcely worth eating. I doubt our climate in England being hot enough in summer to mature the chinese fruit. Yours sincerely, Hanbury. | ||||