Chinese woad - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99349 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 11.00 CRUCIFERAE Isatis tinctoria | Entry Book Number | 1.2016 | |
| Artefact Name | Chinese woad | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | United Kingdom | TDWG Region | United Kingdom | ||
| Parts Held | Chinese woad | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Chinese woadUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Hill, David J. | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 20/01/2016 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Hill, David J. | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Leaves placed in freezer in plastic bag, then dried and rubbed through a colander to produce the dyestuff. David Hill regards Isatis indigotica as a separate species to Isatis tinctoria - and supplied this sample as Isatis indigotica. When this plant g, rows well it produces more indigo, but Chinese woad yields less indigo than Isatis tinctoria | ||||
| Determinations: | 11.00 CRUCIFERAE Isatis tinctoria L. 11.00 CRUCIFERAE Isatis indigotica Fortune ex Lindl. | ||||