Nanga Cotton - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 65467 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 31.01 MALVACEAE Gossypium punctatum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Nanga Cotton | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Sierra Leone | TDWG Region | Sierra Leone | ||
| Parts Held | Nanga Cotton | Geography Description | Sierra Leone | ||
| Uses | Nanga CottonUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Not defined | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Dawe MT | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1925 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Ref C.L.F. 1390/205/1925 of 2nd June 1925 Letter 234,1925 : XVI p.111 MT Dawe Sierra Leone 'Nanga' Cotton named provisionally G.hirsutum same as 'Kwonde' or 'Quande' ?? Herbarium specimen 'In reply to your letter dated 27th July 1925 I have, to inform you that the specimen of Nanga cotton has been identified as G.punctatum, of which G.hirsutum L. is the cultivated form. Pomporch cotton is G.peruvianum Cav., but the specimen received is rather more glabrous than usual' Sierra Leone Royal Gaze, tte No 2265, 1925 | ||||