Roots - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 67178 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 12.01 CAPPARACEAE Capparis spinosa | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Roots | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Iran | TDWG Region | Iran | ||
| Parts Held | Roots | Geography Description | Iran | ||
| Uses | RootsUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Cowan Dr JM | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1930 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Ph. Ind i 131 ; Boiss i 420 The thorny caper plant is found in Western Asia, Europe, North Africa and Australia. According to Dr Aitchison it is a common shrub from Quetta to Meshad in the open country forming great bushes fully five feet h, igh. In Persia, Dr Cowan observed it as a low straggling bush often with stems trailing along the ground. C.aphylla Roth. is very abundant in Baluchistan where it is called by the same vernacular name (I.H.B.). The flower buds all through Persia are colle, cted for household use to be made into pickles. The light coloured root and the thick root bark in half quills are used in medicine. These drugs have been introduced into India by Mohammedans and are exported via the Persian Gulf. The root and root bark a, re pungent and bitter and are given for intermittent fever and rheumatism. | ||||