Wood - Specimen details

Wood - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 70959

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Plant Name 5.01 ANNONACEAE Oxandra sp Entry Book Number 56.1933
Artefact Name Wood Vernacular Name
Iso Country Jamaica TDWG Region Jamaica
Parts Held Wood Geography Description Jamaica, Caribbean, Southern America
Uses WoodUse: MATERIALS User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS
Storage Woods size A Related Items
Donor Bowes Loddiges G Donor No 55
Donor Date Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
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Notes: Label source: See note books held in Archives from Bowes for details Bowes. Refers to Lance wood in his note book as being Lycium (Solanaceae) - Brown calls Lycium the lance wood, a shrub the wood of which is tough & elastic chiefly used for lances. He a, lso mentions a tree supposedly a species of Erythroxylum which he calls lancewood one of the best timber trees strong and elastic but not large. Sent by D.G.R.

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