Dried, powdered leaves - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 76365 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 55.00 MORINGACEAE Moringa oleifera | Entry Book Number | 11.2001 | |
| Artefact Name | Dried, powdered leaves | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Senegal | TDWG Region | Senegal | ||
| Parts Held | Dried, powdered leaves | Geography Description | Senegal, Africa, West Tropical Africa | ||
| Uses | Dried, powdered leavesUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Bazeley, BW | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/09/2000 | Donor Notes | Given for identification . Passed on from Dr Caroline Day, of Aston University Birmingham | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | This sample of powdered leaves results from CEB enquiry 256, 2000. Leaves sent to Kew by Ben W Bazeley, for positive identification. Mr Bazeley is coordinator of the Mukti (Madras Clinic) artificial limbs trust, and the leaves are from local trees, and, make a nutricious food. Leaves are high in protein, vitamin C, vitamin A, calcium, potassium etc. Website for info about the trees value at www.treesforlife.org/drumstickx0Dx0AMuch information on value and analysis included with specimen. | ||||