Fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 65804 | |||||
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Plant Name | 31.01 MALVACEAE Malvaviscus drummondii | Entry Book Number | 87.1913 | |
| Artefact Name | Fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Mexico | TDWG Region | Mexico | ||
| Parts Held | Fibre | Geography Description | Mexico, Oaxaca | ||
| Uses | FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Stuart R Cope | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 14/11/1913 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: It grows by seed easily but also as easily by stumps. It is a perennial. B6 By either way it bears first crop in six months, and then it can be cut again once or twice in the year. It grows in all kinds of soil, rich, poor, hard, sandy,, dry or damp. Each cutting will yield nearly one ton of nett dry fibre per acre, that is two tons a year per acre. The culture is easy and inexpensive and I am now arranging for the proper system. It can be made a splendid auxiliary crop between rubber, . Its staple can attain 3 or 4 metre and I believe it can be so treated as to be spun as cotton or fibre. (Letter 567, 1913, viii, p196. Stuart R Cope, 6th Nov, 1913, to Director). Very good colour, well cleaned excellent length and fair strength. Very s, imilar to Calcutta Jute. Today's value 25 pounds sterling per ton. | ||||