Fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 65870 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 31.01 MALVACEAE Wissadula rostrata | Entry Book Number | 121.1891 | |
| Artefact Name | Fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Grenada | TDWG Region | Grenada | ||
| Parts Held | Fibre | Geography Description | Grenada | ||
| Uses | FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Botanic Garden Grenada | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Smithx0Dx0A | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Value 14 pounds sterling per ton. Label source: Known in Trinidad as 'Maholtine'. Grows anywhere, gives a fibre sometimes over 10 feet long. Good colour and moderate strength but the filaments are much interlaced which would lead to often, being greatly broken in preparing ? for spinning. We think however that it would meet with a market at 14 pounds per ton in London today. Report of Messrs Ide & Christie Sep. 30.1891. | ||||
| Determinations: | 31.01 MALVACEAE Wissadula rostrata Planch. 31.01 MALVACEAE Abutilon periplocifolium | ||||