Fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 65697 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 31.01 MALVACEAE Hibiscus sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Fibre | Geography Description | Assam | ||
| Uses | FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Not defined | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Wigglesworth E | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/05/1932 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: M398-32, fibre for name and if a commercial proposition 'which a tea planter found growing in Assam and which is not at present being utilised for fibre purposes' Edwin Wigglesworth, Adelaide House, King William Street EC4 dated 29 May 1932, Reply see copy in Malvaceae Hibiscus sp asked for herb specimens Mr Holland - of the various fibres with which I have compared it is most similar to H.sabdariffa. I should think it belongs to the genus Hibiscus, but I should not like to be too certain ab, out the species. CRM 25.5.32 | ||||