Roots - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 66798 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 22.01 CARYOPHYLLACEAE Gypsophila paniculata | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Roots | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Iran | TDWG Region | Iran | ||
| Parts Held | Roots | Geography Description | Iran | ||
| Uses | RootsUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Cowan Dr JM | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1930 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Aitchison; Post; Boiss i 542 ; Ph. Ind. i 155. A shrubby plant of North Persia, Afghanistan and the Caucasus and Turkestan, 3 to 4 feet high with numerous stems springing from a perennial root-stock. The plants are characteristic of sandy s, oil; in Khorasan they are wild in cultivated ground. The underground root-stocks are collected and used as soap for washing the hair and clothes. In Persia the roots are regarded as poisonous. They contain the glucoside saponin; Kobert in 1904 separated, from 6 to 16 per cent of this principle from various samples of soap root. The Persian drug is no doubt a substitute for the older Roman and Egyptian Struthium, the root of G.struthium Linn. of south Europe. According to Achundow some of the vernacular na, mes may refer to other saponin-yielding plants. G.arrostii Guss. is the origin of the levantic soap root. (KB 1931 p.319) | ||||