Fruits - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 63328 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 42.00 BURSERACEAE Commiphora opobalsamum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruits | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Fruits | Geography Description | Palestine | ||
| Uses | FruitsUse: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Hooker Sir JD | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: These berries are imported from Arabia, and are kept by all the native druggists : they have a pleasant terebinthinate odour. I have compared them with the figures and description of the fruit of B.opobalsamum in Bentley and Trimens Medicin, al Plants, and consider that there can be no doubt of their identity If soaked in water they soften and can be easily dissected and the remarkable form of the pulpy layer within the epicarp can be seen. Sections of the epicarp show very large ramifying ba, lsam cells, which appear to communicate one with another. The fruit is consisder to be a powerful carminative and digestive ; it is also praised as a stimulant expectorant, and is usually administered in combination with tragacanth. Dymock Pharm Journal | ||||
| Determinations: | 42.00 BURSERACEAE Commiphora opobalsamum Engl. 42.00 BURSERACEAE Balsamodendron opobalsamum | ||||