Stem bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 63272 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 42.00 BURSERACEAE Canarium sp | Entry Book Number | 111.1901 | |
| Artefact Name | Stem bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Uganda | TDWG Region | Uganda | ||
| Parts Held | Stem bark | Geography Description | Uganda | ||
| Uses | Stem barkUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Mahon J | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: Extract of letter from Mahon to Director. I send a small quantity of the gum resin or balsam from the bark of trunk and roots of the Mwafu or incease tree of the country, and which is I presume Canarium stuhlmanni. I also send a piece, of bark to show characteristic exudation. The Mwafu is a tree of extremely noble port as a rule and I understand, the timber is of first rate quality. The balsam is occasionally burnt by the natives for the sake of its pleasant odour, it also is a bril, liant illuminant and is utilised for this purpose. You will observe that the balsam from the trunk bark is harder and less inclined to be transparent than that of the root bark. It exudes as a thin, very oily fluid almost transparent but with a grey tin, ge and having a rather acrid odour. | ||||