Pod - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 73080 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Dioclea megacarpa | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Pod | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Paraguay | TDWG Region | Paraguay | ||
| Parts Held | Pod | Geography Description | Paraguay, Southern America, Southern South America, San Pedro | ||
| Uses | PodUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Sandwith NY | Donor No | H143/64 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Woolston AL | Collector No | 1625 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 27/06/1959 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Large liana, 15-20cm. Fruit only. Pulp of fruit and seeds is used to make a sherbert for feverish colds. Seed sliced and maccerated in alcohol, or burnt and powdered, and mixed with a resin and sulphur and applied to face for 'golpe de aire' (stroke). D, ecoction of burnt seed taken for stomach and liver complaints. High wood, on trees. Carolina, Dept. San Pedro, Alto Paraguay. Mr NY Sandwith H143/64, from Paraguay presented for purchasing from AL Woolston, Bulstrode Park, Gerrards Cross, Bucks. | ||||