Fruit - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 64099 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 39.01 RUTACEAE Evodia rutaecarpa | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruit | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Japan | TDWG Region | Japan | ||
| Parts Held | Fruit | Geography Description | Japan | ||
| Uses | FruitUse: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 22 F 3 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/11/1878 | Donor Notes | Christy Thos (Pres by)x0Dx0A | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: Fr et Sav vol i pp 71 & 72 Phonzou Zoufou vol lxx fol ll This drug consists of the pedicels and very young fruits of the plant. The stalks are cylindrical about one line in diam covered with down consisting of minute spreading hairs. The, fruits are reddish brown, deeply pitted with oil glands, verying 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 sim, ilar but less powerful. Possibly the young fruits of E glauca Miq. are also used, since koshiou you is given as the Jap name for this sp in Phonzou Zoufou vol lxx, fol. 10. Boymia rutaecarpa is a handsome shrub 6 to 10 feet high, and cult in S of Japan fo, r beauty. Flowers dioecious from May and June. Drug is thought a valuable remedy used as purgative, emmenagogue, sudorific and stimulant and possesses properties thought similar to common rue. | ||||