Roots - Specimen details

Roots - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 66798

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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
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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)

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