Pepper corns & unknown fruit - Specimen details

Pepper corns & unknown fruit - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 71981

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Plant Name 139.01 PIPERACEAE Piper sp Entry Book Number 49.1992.4
Artefact Name Pepper corns & unknown fruit Vernacular Name
Iso Country China TDWG Region China
Parts Held Pepper corns & unknown fruit Geography Description China, Xinjiang, Kashgar Market
Uses Pepper corns & unknown fruitUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
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Notes: Label source: Prescription, consisting of 2 kinds of dried fruits which should be ground to powder & taken by mouth (infusion ? or worked into pills?) as a memory tonic. Bought from seller of traditional Uighur medicines in Kashgar Market. Smaller fruits, appear to be black pepper. Hard to say what large dried fleshy fruit might be without dissecting it.

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