Cajuput oil - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 76848 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 67.01 MYRTACEAE Melaleuca leucadendron | Entry Book Number | 21.1983 | |
| Artefact Name | Cajuput oil | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Cajuput oil | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Cajuput oilUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Essential Oil Cabinet | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 248a | ||
| Donor Date | 22/08/1983 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | The entry for this specimen (No. 248a) in the 1878 published catalogue of the Pharmaceutical Society Museum collection reads: 'It occasionally contains traces of copper, as the oil readily acts on that metal when kept in copper vessels. It dissolves India, -rubber. P.J. [3], vol. ii. p. 804; Per. Mat. Med., vol. ii., pt. ii., p. 227; Pharmacographia, p. 247. For fig. of plant, see Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, tab. 108.' | ||||