Gum - Specimen details
Catalogue Number: 63368 | |||||
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No Image | Plant Name | 42.00 BURSERACEAE Garuga pinnata | Entry Book Number | ||
Artefact Name | Gum | Vernacular Name | |||
Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
Parts Held | Gum | Geography Description | Bengal, Darjeeling | ||
Uses | GumUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
Donor | Manson, India Forest Department | Donor No | E1706 | ||
Donor Date | 00/00/1878 | Donor Notes | |||
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Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
Number Components | Publication | ||||
Notes: | Label source: The gum of this tree is greenish yellow, translucent, in small mamilliform masses, having a mild terebinithate odour and taste. Only a very small part of it is soluble in rectified spirit, causing a slight turbidity; in water it rapidly di, sintegrates forming a tolerably thick mucilage, in which globules of oleo resin may be seen with the microscope; the insoluble portion is amorphous, flaky and white. The mucilage is precipitated milk white by rectified spirit. I am not aware of this gum, having been used for any purpose. The tree is nowhere very abundant; my specimen came from N Canara. Dymock, Pharm Journ. |