Pedicels and young fruit - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 63815 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 39.01 RUTACEAE Evodia rutaecarpa | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Pedicels and young fruit | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Japan | TDWG Region | Japan | ||
| Parts Held | Pedicels and young fruit | Geography Description | Japan | ||
| Uses | Pedicels and young fruitUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Christy T | Donor No | 50 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1878 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Fr et Sav vol i pp 71, 72; Phonzon Zoufor vol lxx. fol ll. This drug consists of the pedicel and very young fruit of the plant. The stalks are cylindrical, about one line in diameter, covered with down consisting of minute spreading hairs, . The fruits are reddish brown, deeply pitted with oil glands, varying in size from a swan shot to a small pea, and divided half way down into five segments. The taste is decidedly rutaceous and pungent, although not exactly that of rue. The odour is, very similar but less powerful. Possible young fruits of E glauca Miq. are also used, since 'Koshiou you' is given as the Japanese name for the species in `Phonzon Zoufou, vol lxx fol 10. Boymia rutaecarpa is a handsome shrub, six to ten feet high,and f, requently cultivated in the south of Japan for its beauty. The flowers, which are dioecious, are produced in May and June. By the Japanese doctors of the Chinese school this is considered to be a most valuable remedy, and is used as a purgative, emmenag, ogue, sudorific and stimulant, and, in fact, seems to possess properties very similar to those accredited to the common rue. | ||||