Chewsticks - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 73525 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 27.01 GUTTIFERAE Garcinia mannii | Entry Book Number | 37.1995.1 | |
| Artefact Name | Chewsticks | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Cameroon | TDWG Region | Cameroon | ||
| Parts Held | Chewsticks | Geography Description | Cameroon, Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Limbe | ||
| Uses | ChewsticksUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Rumball N | Collector No | 1 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/10/1995 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | There is a significant trade of this commodity to Nigeria - now almost extinct in accessible forest. Young stems are stripped of bark and chewed. It is said to have antibacterial properties and clean teeth. An understorey tree in high forest. Purchased, on the market in Limbe - sold on many spice stalls.x0Dx0APlants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016. | ||||