Sponge of stem fibres - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 73530 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Acacia sp | Entry Book Number | 37.1995.1 | |
| Artefact Name | Sponge of stem fibres | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Cameroon | TDWG Region | Cameroon | ||
| Parts Held | Sponge of stem fibres | Geography Description | Cameroon, Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Limbe | ||
| Uses | Sponge of stem fibresUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | In Museum | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Rumball N | Collector No | 6 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/10/1995 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Two sponges purchased on Limbe market from a spice stall. These are from climbers whose fibres are used everywhere as sponges. The genetic conservation project at Limbe found this climber was reported increasingly rare by locals. Liane.x0Dx0APart of Plants, + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016 | ||||