# occurrence

institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026629
modified: 1999-03-23 00:00:00
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Africa, Northern Africa
ScientificName: Poaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Barnhart
kingdom: Plantae
family: Poaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Barley from the catacombs of Egypt in cloth with sand, shaped into a mummy 14 inches long many of the grains had germinated.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026630
modified: 2003-11-05 09:43:41.800000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Africa, Northern Africa, Kahun
identifiedBy: Tackholm V
ScientificName: Hordeum vulgare
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Poaceae
genus: Hordeum
specificEpithet: vulgare
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  XII Dynasty. Lolium temulentum (Flowering ?) mixed among the barley. Specimen missing 1978 The grain is barley The ? is barley T.oweam. or T. compleum (?). Weedseeds found among the cereal. 1. ?  2.Flax  3.   5.Cloves  6.Oats.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026631
modified: 1999-01-14 00:00:00
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, Sussex, Lewes, Beddington, Ilford Hill
ScientificName: Hordeum vulgare
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Poaceae
genus: Hordeum
specificEpithet: vulgare
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From a late Bronze Age farmstead site at Itford Hill, nr. Lewes, Sussex. (c.600 B.C.) This carbonized grain has been examined by Dr. Hans Helbaek of Copenhagen who reports that it was hulled barley of the six-row species.  Both the main forms were present, the nodding Bere (Hordeum testrastichum), the spike of which is lax, narrow and tetragonal in cross section, and the erect form (Hordeum hexastichum), which has a dense and broader spike, hexagonal in cross-section. Seeds of fourteen weed species were dispersed among the grain. Over eleven pounds weight of this carbonised barley was found in a circular sstore pit in the floor of a circular hut which had also contained an upright loom. The hut was one of four within an earthen compound which was originally surrouned by a wooden palisade. Ref. 'Early Crops in Southern England' by Hans Helbaek. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society for 1952 New Series Vol. XVIII, pt. 2. The excavations were carried out by the Brighton and Hove Archaelogical Society under the direction of Mr GP Burstow, F.S.A. and Mr GA Holleyman, F.S.A. 1949-1953. The full report of the excavation will be published in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. (Letter D.2933/56/M.)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026633
modified: 2006-08-17 14:36:17.637000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Africa, Northern Africa, Lower Egypt, Hawara
ScientificName: Hordeum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Poaceae
genus: Hordeum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Shown in case No 55 Main Museum 1968. Entry Book: Collection of plant remains found by W.M. Flinders Petrie in the cemetery of Hawara, Egypt. Comm. P. Newberry. Among the funeral offerings of the ancient Egyptians often occur masses of a pap of roughly cut or coarsely ground grains of barley. These masses are generally found in small earthern bowls, placed on the floor of the vault like other offerings. In Prof. Maspero's opinion these masses of barley which are in no way suitable for human nourishment answers to the Mola (Mola salsa) offerings of the Roman of earlier epochs.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026639
modified: 2007-08-29 10:45:42.380000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Thebes, Northern Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Citrullus colocynthis
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Schrad.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cucurbitaceae
genus: Citrullus
specificEpithet: colocynthis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Taken from one of the tombs of the Kings at Thebes. Approximate age 6000 years. Shown in case No 55 Main Museum 1968. Portion of fruit which was taken in the year 1855 out of one of the tombs of the Kings at Thebes. 'I should say the fruit cannot be less than 6000 years old'  (Extract from letter 152, 1912, vii.p.133, The Kew ? HA Hamilton, All Saints Vicarage, Newmarket  April 11th 1912.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026640
modified: 2006-12-11 16:29:56.243000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Africa, Northern Africa, Island of Roda, Nilometer, Near Cairo
ScientificName: Juniperus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Juniperus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Juniperus or Cupressus sp. From ancient Nilometer on island of Roda near Cairo, an Arab monument erected AD 716


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026643
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
ScientificName: Acacia
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Acacia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Seed of Leguminosae The unknown Leguminosae I shall examine later  Tackholm V Acacia sp ?  H. Boualeat


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026644
modified: 2011-05-11 14:28:42.277000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
identifiedBy: Tackholm V
ScientificName: Lens culinaris
scientificNameAuthorship: Medik.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lens
specificEpithet: culinaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Found in a grave in the cemetery at Hawara c. 1st century BC. Graeco-Roman period. Was labelled Lens esculentus


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026647
modified: 2007-03-30 12:01:08.917000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Hawara
identifiedBy: Tackholm V
ScientificName: Lychnis coeli-rosa
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Desr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Caryophyllaceae
genus: Lychnis
specificEpithet: coeli-rosa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Portion of wreath - flowers of Chrysanthmum coronarium L., Flowers of Lychnis coeli-rosa and twigs of date palm. Branches of Majorana hortensis. Found in a grave in the cemetery at Hawara, c. 1st century BC. Graeco Roman period. Also mud balls


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026648
modified: 2025-08-04 16:41:58.397000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
ScientificName: Linum usitatissimum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Linaceae
genus: Linum
specificEpithet: usitatissimum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Four pieces numbered 1, 1 1/2, 2 and 3.  No 1 Date about BC 900. 1A BC 9002. BC 500. Letter to Curator - In having some pieces of mummy cloth and being desirous of knowing whether the material is silk, cotton or flax, I send herewith 3 samples of the cloth and should be most thankful for your opinion of them. I have numbered each sample No.1 and 1 1/2 of about BC 900 and No 2 BC 500 Sender GD Morce. Reported upon by Mr Boodle as follows - The four samples of mummy's cloth appear to be all made from flax. In No 3 the fibre is coarse having been less beaten out than in the other samples and has probably been soaked in some greasy or waxy substance.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026654
modified: 2010-08-03 08:54:05.520000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Tel-el-Amarna
ScientificName: Hyphaene thebaica
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Mart.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Arecaceae
genus: Hyphaene
specificEpithet: thebaica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Kernel of Hyphaene thebaica, one date stone.  3 stones of Prunus amygdalus or allied species.  One stone of Balanites aegyptiaca and a seed of Mimusops which have not the appearance of being ancient specimens.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026655
modified: 2010-04-28 16:46:28.137000
recordedBy: Martin GT
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: North Saqqara
identifiedBy: Hepper FN
ScientificName: Hyoscyamus muticus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Solanaceae
genus: Hyoscyamus
specificEpithet: muticus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Portion of infructescence.  Sacred Animal Necropolis, excavated by Martinet al 1971 to 1973. Hepper 143D


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026656
modified: 2007-05-29 14:57:34.423000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, Puddlehill
ScientificName: Lithospermum arvense
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Boraginaceae
genus: Lithospermum
specificEpithet: arvense
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Seeds found at a depth of 2 ft on Puddlehill, associated with pottery dating from c. 1 BC.  Letter D2399, 27/04/1952


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026657
modified: 2007-05-29 14:57:49.927000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, Puddlehill
ScientificName: Lithospermum arvense
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Boraginaceae
genus: Lithospermum
specificEpithet: arvense
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Seeds found at a depth of 2 ft on Puddlehill, associated with pottery dating from c. 1 BC.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026664
modified: 2011-05-11 14:35:59.583000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
eventDate: 1881-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1881
identifiedBy: Tackholm V
ScientificName: Matthiola humilis
scientificNameAuthorship: (E.D.Clarke) DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Brassicaceae
genus: Matthiola
specificEpithet: humilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Wreath composed of flowers of Matthiola humilis (libratus L.) and petals of Rosa sancta, bound by strips of papyrus pith on to strips of papyrus.  Grave in cemetery at Hawara.  Graeco-Roman period  1st BC.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026667
modified: 2006-08-17 14:46:16.727000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Thebes, near Schech Abd-el-Quena
identifiedBy: Alan J Paton
ScientificName: Mentha × piperita
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Lamiaceae
genus: Mentha
specificEpithet: × piperita
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sterile runners taken from a wreath found by Maspero in a tomb, Thebes XX, to XXVI Dynasty.  Long label in German. Originally Mentha piperita L.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026669
recordedBy: Martin GT
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, North Saqqara
identifiedBy: Hepper FN (143p)
ScientificName: Mimusops schimperi
scientificNameAuthorship: Hochst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapotaceae
genus: Mimusops
specificEpithet: schimperi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  leaves rolled and sewn on a wreath.  Sacred Animal Necropolis. Excavated 1971 - 1973.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026673
modified: 2010-08-03 08:58:25.413000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Tel-el-Amarna
identifiedBy: Tackholm Vivi, Boodle LA
ScientificName: Mimusops schimperi
scientificNameAuthorship: Hochst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapotaceae
genus: Mimusops
specificEpithet: schimperi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Egyptian specimens in Museums:- Leaves labelled Diospyros mespiliformis Not this species but probably Mimusops schimperi, as suggested by Mrs Tackholm (from LA Boodle Sept. 1935)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026677
modified: 2011-05-11 14:34:30.827000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt , Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
identifiedBy: Tackholm V
ScientificName: Mimusops schimperi
scientificNameAuthorship: Hochst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapotaceae
genus: Mimusops
specificEpithet: schimperi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Stones of the fruit of M.schimperi found in a grave in the cemetery of Hawara Graeco-Roman period. (c.1st century BC.)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026678
modified: 2011-05-11 14:35:21.887000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie WM
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
identifiedBy: Tackholm V
ScientificName: Mimusops schimperi
scientificNameAuthorship: Hochst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapotaceae
genus: Mimusops
specificEpithet: schimperi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Wreath of leaves composed of the leaves of M.schimperi, and the leaves of the olive (Olea europaea). Found in a grave in the cemetery of Hawara, Graeco-Roman period. (c. 1st century BC.) To BM (Nat. Hist.) and transfered to RBG Kew in 1975by John Lewes Esq.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026679
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
identifiedBy: Tackholm V
ScientificName: Mimusops schimperi
scientificNameAuthorship: Hochst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapotaceae
genus: Mimusops
specificEpithet: schimperi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Wreath  composed of folded leaves of M. schimperi threaded with thin strips of the leaves of the date palm. Found in a grave in the cemetery of Hawara. Graeco-Roman period (circ. 1st century BC.)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026681
modified: 2008-05-07 15:31:32.177000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
ScientificName: Mimusops schimperi
scientificNameAuthorship: Hochst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapotaceae
genus: Mimusops
specificEpithet: schimperi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From the coffin of Princess Nzi Khonson XXIst Dynasty (1000 BC.), composed of leaves of Mimusops schimperi and the petals and sepals of Nymphaea caerulea. Originally written in German.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026682
modified: 1994-05-25 00:00:00
recordedBy: Maspero Dr
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Thebes, Sheykh Abdel Querna, Northern Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Mimusops schimperi
scientificNameAuthorship: Hochst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapotaceae
genus: Mimusops
specificEpithet: schimperi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Wreath of the Greco-Roman period composed of leaves of M.schimperi, found by Dr Maspero in a vault near Sheykh Abdel Querna, Thebes. Original label in German.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026683
modified: 2008-05-07 15:30:22.110000
recordedBy: Schweinfurth GA
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
ScientificName: Mimusops schimperi
scientificNameAuthorship: Hochst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapotaceae
genus: Mimusops
specificEpithet: schimperi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Portion of a wreath from the coffin of Rhamses II (1100-1200 B.C.) composed of leaves of Mimusops schimperi and sepals and petals of Nymphaea lotus. No 2


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026685
recordedBy: Newberry Percy S
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Thebes
identifiedBy: Tackholm V
ScientificName: Medemia argun
scientificNameAuthorship: (Mart.) Württemb. ex H.Wendl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Arecaceae
genus: Medemia
specificEpithet: argun
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From a tomb at Thebes. On index card (Auth. Mart.) From tombs at Thebes H H Calvert 107. 1874.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026691
modified: 2011-05-11 14:32:21.830000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
ScientificName: Myrtus communis
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Myrtaceae
genus: Myrtus
specificEpithet: communis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Bundle of twigs of Myrtus communis L. and blades of Imperata cylindrica (L.) P.Beauv. Grave in cemetery at Hawara, Graeco-Roman period, c. 1st. century BC This grass has to be examined anatomically for Desmostachya ? bipinnata or Imperata cylindrica. 4. Bundle of Myrtle twigs and blades of a scented grass (Andropojan???)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026692
modified: 2007-08-29 10:25:05.583000
recordedBy: Martin GT
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Saqqara
ScientificName: Lens culinaris
scientificNameAuthorship: Medik.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lens
specificEpithet: culinaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Dr Dixon's sample of lentil seeds, Lens esculentus is bulk of sample, plus Phoenix dactilifera seed, plus Olea europea leaf. Sketch of Vicia calcarata papillose or mimicate. Envelope with fibres among lentil sample. Envelope with charcoal among lentil seeds.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026693
modified: 2000-11-13 09:53:52.563000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Africa, Northern Africa, Tel-el-Amarna
identifiedBy: Tackholm V
ScientificName: Juniperus oxycedrus var. macrocarpa
scientificNameAuthorship: (Sm.) Silba
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Juniperus
specificEpithet: oxycedrus
infraspecificEpithet: macrocarpa
taxonRank: VARIETY
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Three fruits of Juniperus. See letter Oct. 24 1927 = list of names sent to secretary Egypt Explor. Soc. Juniperus ??? T.A. 26-7 182.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026695
modified: 1999-03-24 00:00:00
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, Hampshire, Winklebury Hill
ScientificName: Hordeum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Poaceae
genus: Hordeum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Grains of Barley from pits on Winklebury Hill 100 to 200 or 300 B.C. This sample was examined by Prof. Percival, Reading 27.3.1916. and found to consist of Barley grains. J.Mist? 28.3.16.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026696
modified: 1999-03-23 00:00:00
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, Hampshire, Winklebury Hill
ScientificName: Poaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Barnhart
kingdom: Plantae
family: Poaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Grains of Barley taken from pits on Winklebury Hill, 100 to 200 or 300 years BC. Prof. Percival, Reading considers that this sample consists of Barley Grains. J. Mist? 27.3.1916. Circular pit 3. Grains of wheat, barley and oats found on bottom.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026697
modified: 2011-05-11 14:38:17.867000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
identifiedBy: Tackholm V
ScientificName: Narcissus tazetta
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Amaryllidaceae
genus: Narcissus
specificEpithet: tazetta
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Wreath of flowers bound with thin strips of papyrus pith onto papyrus. Grave in cemetery, Hawara. Graeco-Roman period, c. 1st century BC.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026698
modified: 1994-01-20 00:00:00
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
ScientificName: Narcissus tazetta
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Amaryllidaceae
genus: Narcissus
specificEpithet: tazetta
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Portion of a wreath composed of flowers of Narcissus tazetta L., flowers of Matthiola librator L. and petals of a species of Hibiscus.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026699
modified: 2011-05-11 14:33:10.217000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Seeds in a box from a grave in the cemetery at Hawara. c. AD 320.  Found in wood box together with a coin of the age of Constantine (BC 340). Seeds with coats removed are the result of an attempted germination, Dec 1925.  Seeds quite brown inside but structure of radicle and plumule was preserved. AW Exell.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026700
modified: 2006-11-10 15:33:03.127000
recordedBy: Martin GT
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, North Saqqara
identifiedBy: F.N. Hepper (No.59)
ScientificName: Nelumbo nucifera
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Nelumbonaceae
genus: Nelumbo
specificEpithet: nucifera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Base of lamina.  N. Saqqara Sacred Animal Necropolis, excavated by Dr GT Martin et al. 1971-1973 No. 59.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026702
modified: 2011-05-11 14:28:12.047000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
identifiedBy: Tackholm V
ScientificName: Nymphaea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Nymphaeaceae
genus: Nymphaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Found in a grave in the cemetery at Hawara.  Graeco-Roman period 1st c. BC. Listed on cards under N. caerulea Sav.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026703
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
ScientificName: Nymphaea caerulea
scientificNameAuthorship: Savigny
kingdom: Plantae
family: Nymphaeaceae
genus: Nymphaea
specificEpithet: caerulea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Flowers from the coffin of Rameses II (1100-1200 BC). Exhibited in Case No.55 Main Museum


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026705
modified: 2006-11-10 15:28:02.713000
recordedBy: Martin GT
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, North Saqqara
identifiedBy: Hepper FN (N0. 143R)
ScientificName: Ocimum basilicum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Lamiaceae
genus: Ocimum
specificEpithet: basilicum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Partly Ocimum basilicum L.  North Saqqara Sacred Animal Necropolis, excavated 1971-1973


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026709
modified: 2011-05-11 14:31:33.527000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
identifiedBy: Tackholm V
ScientificName: Olea europaea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Oleaceae
genus: Olea
specificEpithet: europaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Kernels of Olea, found in grave in cemetery at Hawara, Graeco-Roman period, c. 1st BC.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026710
modified: 2010-02-04 12:25:38.440000
recordedBy: Schweinfurth GA
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
ScientificName: Olea europaea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Oleaceae
genus: Olea
specificEpithet: europaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fruit stones of Olea, sample named by Mr  Percy Newberry, Elaeocarpus serratus. It was submitted to Schweinfurth 27/2/95, and named by him olive. Another label reads Myrtus communis L (var. tarentina L.) LaB 25.7.19, entry book no. 59.1914. Another label reads shown in case 55 Main museum, 1968.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026716
modified: 2011-05-11 14:38:03.360000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
ScientificName: Olea europaea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Oleaceae
genus: Olea
specificEpithet: europaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Two leaves from wreath of the Graeco-Roman pereiod.  From Leyden Museum, Dr Pleyte. and O. europaea var nubica from a grave in the cemetery at Hawara, 1888 by Petrie. 134.88.  Cat.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026721
modified: 2007-03-07 16:20:24.450000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
ScientificName: Lychnis coeli-rosa
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Desr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Caryophyllaceae
genus: Lychnis
specificEpithet: coeli-rosa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Portion of wreath of flowers of Lychnis and berries of Solanum dulcamara L, Flowers and petals of Rosa richardii Rehd. and petals of Matthiola librator L bound by strips of Papyrus upon Papyrus pith. Also 1. & 2. Bouquets of Abyssinian Rose, Petals, Rosa richardii Rehd. 3. Bouquet composed of Flowers of Lychnis coeli-rosa Desr. and berries of bittersweet, Solanum dulcamara L. Also 4 Berries of Solanum dulcamara L. Also 5. Fragment of wreath composed of flowers of Epilobium hirsutum L.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026723
modified: 2006-11-29 11:16:10.117000
recordedBy: Schweinfurth GA
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Thebes, Northern Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Secret vault of the Kings of the XXIst Dynasty (1100-1000 BC.) Discovered at Deir el bakan (?) Thebes 1881. MIxture of Parmelia furfuracea  & Gyinnanthelia lanuigera (?). The odour perhaps from some aromatic wood (Sandal ??)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026724
modified: 2011-05-11 14:22:52.287000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
identifiedBy: Tackholm V
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Hawara cemetery c. 1st century BC. Brush composed of the spadix of the date palm. Graeco-Roman period.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026729
modified: 2011-05-11 14:33:36.287000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Hawara
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Dates and date stones found in a grave in the cemetery of Hawara. Graeco-Roman period (circ. 1st century BC.)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026731
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fragments of leaves of the date palm found in a mudbrick of the pyramid at Hawara. BC 2500


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026740
modified: 2007-01-08 14:42:27.717000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Africa, Northern Africa, Island of Roda, Nilometer, Nr Cairo
ScientificName: Pinus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From ancient Nilometer on the Island of Roda near Cairo, an Arab monument erected AD 716


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026741
modified: 2011-05-11 14:27:09.257000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Africa, Northern Africa, Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
identifiedBy: Tackholm V
ScientificName: Pinus pinea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: pinea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fragment of a pine cone found in a grave in the cemetery at Hawara, Graeco-Roman period (circ. 1st century BC.)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026743
modified: 2000-11-21 09:54:57.393000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, West Ham
identifiedBy: Boodle
ScientificName: Pinus cembroides
scientificNameAuthorship: Zucc.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: cembroides
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Found deeply buried at West Ham. Identified by Mr Boodle as Pinus sp Not Scoth Pine, but resembling P.cembra. Letter 10, 1924, XV p.161. Miss Rogers, 28 Lime Grove, Shepherds Bush.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026746
modified: 2011-05-11 14:37:28.350000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
ScientificName: Prunus persica
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Batsch
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rosaceae
genus: Prunus
specificEpithet: persica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Peach stones found in the cemetery of Hawara. Graeco-roman period circ 1st century BC.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026749
modified: 2011-05-11 13:36:37.683000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
ScientificName: Punica granatum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Lythraceae
genus: Punica
specificEpithet: granatum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Pomegranate found in a grave in the cemetery of Hawara, Egypt. Graeco-Roman period (circ. 1st century BC.)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026753
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Portion of a necklace composed of the fruit of the date palm threaded on thread of twine. Found in a grave in the cemetry of Hawara. Graeco-Roman period (circ. 1st centary BC.)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026754
modified: 2009-03-18 11:43:50.993000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt
ScientificName: Quercus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fagaceae
genus: Quercus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Piece of wood from shrine of Tutankhamen. Left at laboratory by Prof. Newberry, (Address ?) The wood is oak. It does not appear possible to identify it specifically, but Q.cerris is suggested. L.A.B. 2.7.25. Letter to Prof. Newberry advising name and seeking permission to keep specimen in museum. 3.vii. 25 The wood work of the shrine is made entirely of this wood, and the wood work was covered with tiles and the latter covered with gold plates. This is not correct for it is made of two kinds of wood acording to Lucas. signed Prof. Newberry 5.July 1937.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026755
modified: 2006-11-30 15:53:59.013000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Collingham, River Trent
ScientificName: Quercus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fagaceae
genus: Quercus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter  Dear Mr Jackson, Enclosed is a piece of Oak bark. When I came to this house in 1859, I found the floor of the best bedroom sink under foot, and from taking up a plank we saw that the builder had put in as beams ? oak ? with sap and bark on them and ? the joists into them. The sapwood had been reduced to a powder as fine as snuff (?) by the insects, and the joists had become detached. The heart of the wood and the bark were fine. Whether this falls under the Dept. of the Gardens which you conduct, I am uncertain. Signed RC Prior. Oak wood entirely devoured by worms, put in to Halse House about 120 years ago. Shows the durability of bark, and the importance of leaving sapwood attached to a beam. Dredged from the foundations of the Roman Bridge over the Trent at Collingham 1884, built about A.D. 60. Letter 428. 1908 speciman 160/1908. Wooton Court, Warwick. Dec. 4th 1908. Dear Sir, On closer enquiries I am satisified that the chip of old oak which I sent you was dredged up from the bottom of the Trent, during operations at Collingham in 1884, from the foundations of the Roman bridge there, first discovered in a drought in 1792. The Rev. A.D. Hill, the Rector of East Bridgford gives me this information, and the date and some particulars are confirmed by the daughter of my friend Mr. Cofield (?), who gave me this chip. There is an account of this bridge I believe in the British Arch. Assoc. Proceedings for Jan. 1885. The bridge apparently carried a road running N.W. from the Station ofCracolaug (?) on the Foss (Brough) 5 miles from Newark. The Foss Road must have been a fairly early construction, Mr. Hill says, judging by the Roman Millitary Stone found near Leicester, and now in the Museum there, of the IVth year of Hadrian, 120 A.D.Yours truly F.Beresford Wright.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026757
modified: 2005-07-04 15:32:23.233000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Carlisle area
ScientificName: Fagaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Dumort.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fagaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Found below the Roman wall in cutting the canal from Carlisle to the Solway Firth in 1823. A quantity of posts and rails were made of the trunks and used for fences, See 'Archaeologia Aeliana' Vol. 2.p.117. Bruce's 'Roman Wall' p.310. about 1.5 miles east of Bowness. Presented by Mr C Hodgson Carlisle 1830.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026758
country: Türkiye
countryCode: TR
locality: Ephesus, Temple of Artemis
ScientificName: Quercus cerris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fagaceae
genus: Quercus
specificEpithet: cerris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Section of an oak beam found on a pavement of the Temple Of Artemis, Ephesus, 22ft. below the surface, 1875. These pieces of wood are about 2,500 years old.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026759
modified: 2006-11-30 16:18:43.117000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Tyne at Newcastle
ScientificName: Quercus sessiliflora
scientificNameAuthorship: Salisb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fagaceae
genus: Quercus
specificEpithet: sessiliflora
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Part of a pile forming a portion of the foundation of the Roman Bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle built by the Emperor Hadrian, A.D. 121, the pieces of which were removed about 15 years ago to make room for the present structure. The wood is probably that of Quercus sessiliflora.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026760
modified: 2006-11-28 15:15:31.937000
country: Türkiye
countryCode: TR
locality: Ephesus, Temple of Artemis
ScientificName: Quercus robur
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fagaceae
genus: Quercus
specificEpithet: robur
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Found on the pavement at the Temple of Artemis, Ephesus, 22 ft. below the surface. 1875.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026761
modified: 2007-03-30 11:58:51.757000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
ScientificName: Rosa sancta
scientificNameAuthorship: Andrews
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rosaceae
genus: Rosa
specificEpithet: × sancta
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Portion of wreath of flowers of Rosa sancta L. bound with strips of leaves of Phoenix dactylifera L. onto strips of Cyperus papyrus L. Grave in cemetery at Hawara. Graeco-Roman period, c. 1st. century BC 129


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026762
modified: 2011-05-11 13:31:21.573000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
ScientificName: Rosa × richardii
scientificNameAuthorship: Rehder
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rosaceae
genus: Rosa
specificEpithet: × richardii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Portion of a wreath composed of flowers of Rosa richardii Rehd. bound by strips of the leaves of the date palm upon strips of papyrus. Buds, flowers, and petals of Rosa richardii Rehd. Sepals, portions of a leaf and pistil of Rosa richardii Rehd.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026763
modified: 2007-03-30 12:03:04.723000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Hawara
ScientificName: Rumex dentatus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Polygonaceae
genus: Rumex
specificEpithet: dentatus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fragment of a plant of Rumex dentatus L. taken out of a mud brick of the pyramid of Hawara, B.C. 2500.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026766
modified: 2011-05-11 14:34:14.493000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
ScientificName: Scirpus maritimus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cyperaceae
genus: Scirpus
specificEpithet: maritimus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From the interior of a crocodile mummy found in the cemetery of Hawara, Egypt. Graeco-Roman period.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026767
modified: 2011-05-11 14:38:34.823000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
ScientificName: Saccharum spontaneum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Poaceae
genus: Saccharum
specificEpithet: spontaneum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Found among the stuffing of a crocodile mummy of the Graeco-Roman period c. 1st century BC. Hawara cemetery.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026769
modified: 2006-11-28 15:15:13.050000
recordedBy: Schweinfurth GA
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Portion of a wreath from the coffin of the Princess Nzi Khonson XXIst Dynasty 1000 B.C. Composed of leaves of Salix safsaf Forsk. and flowers of Papaver rhoeas L. with separate flowers and capsule of Papaver rhoeas.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026770
recordNumber: 5
modified: 2006-07-24 15:32:42.650000
recordedBy: Schweinfurth GA
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Portion of a wreath from the coffin of Aahmes 1st (1700 B.C.) composed of leaves of Salix safsaf Forsk., serving as clasps to the flowers and petals which are detached. Separate leaves of Salix safsaf and petals of Althaea ficifolia Cav. are shown.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026771
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Wales, Anglesea, Rhoscolyn
ScientificName: Salix
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Salicaceae
genus: Salix
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From a submerged forest at Borth-wan, Rhoscolyn, Anglesea. From Dr Edward Greenley, Aethury Ridge, Bango, N.Wales. The piece of wood has been identified as Willow. L.A.B. 6.3.44. (Letter 91, 1924;XV.p.180)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026774
modified: 2007-01-25 11:40:06.573000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Carlisle, Walton
ScientificName: Quercus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fagaceae
genus: Quercus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Pieces of Oak from vegetable deposit at the bottom of a Roman ditch at Walton, near Carlisle. From F Haverfield, Christchurch, Oxford. 'I am digging at a Roman fort here and have come upon a big ditch made by the Romans. It is a large thing and some 20 feet wide as the bottom is a layer of peat, or something like peat a foot thick. In the peat we found bits of Roman pottery, a couple of Roman sandles etc. and various bits of wood. These presumably tumbled in during Roman times and the woodrepresents wood then growing. Could you tell me how long the ditch is likely to have been open for a layer of vegetation a foot thick to be now discoverable? Extract from letter from Mr F Haverfield to Director August 23rd 1902 (Specimens of the wood sent for name.) Vegetable deposits in Roman ditch at Walton. The peat referred to in Mr Haverfield's letter of August 23rd is not likely to be true peat but merely subaqueous deposit of vegetable debris such as forms on the bed of any ditch or pond of stagnant water. This would be derived from 1. algae and other water plants living and dying in the water. Or 2. remains of land plants which found their way into the ditch by various agencies. The rate of formation of such deposit is under ordinary conditions very slow, but it is influenced by so many local circumstances that it is impossible to form any adequate idea of the time during which the ditch at Walton must have been open to allow the accumulation of such deposit a foot thick. Signed Mr Pearson.12.IX.1902. Specimens of wood. These include 13 pieces of Oak (the largest specimens in the collection). 8 pieces of Birch (judging from its shape and the clay adhereing to its shaped surface, one of these was the lower end of a stake.) 2 pieces of Ash. 1 pieceof Hazel (probably) The remaining specimens are small pieces of roots. Most of them are almost certainly Birch roots. Signed as above. Both letters sent to archives.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026775
modified: 2010-02-26 12:39:45.707000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Africa, Northern Africa, Saqqara, King Sozers Pyramid
ScientificName: Hordeum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Poaceae
genus: Hordeum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Seeds of barley with Triticum dicoccum, Vicia sp and Lathyrus sp. 2980 BC. Brought to Herb. by Newberry.  Presented on 26.7.33.  Director wishes to have seeds tested for germination and sent to Mr Robinson for this purpose - he replies no germination.  Letter to Mr Holland - re the seeds of barley from King Zoser's Pyramid, presented by Prof. E Newberry.  Seed selected and sewn.  Test matter in separate test tube.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026777
modified: 1999-03-17 00:00:00
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, Leatherhead
ScientificName: Triticum compactum
scientificNameAuthorship: Host
kingdom: Plantae
family: Poaceae
genus: Triticum
specificEpithet: compactum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Grain of Triticum, Hordeum and Avena from Prehistoric site near Leatherhead. Letter in archives - says sample agrees with one found near Winklebury Hill.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026783
modified: 2006-11-09 14:14:23.620000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Africa, Northern Africa, Tel-el-Amarna
identifiedBy: Tackholm Vivi
ScientificName: Triticum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Poaceae
genus: Triticum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Naked wheat, not settled yet if the ancient Egypt naked wheat belongs to T durum or T turgidum.  Flax?  T21 wheat and cloth.  Letter 22/27 Entry No 47/27.  Sec Egypt Explor Soc. 13 Tavistock Square WC1. Oct 12, 1927


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026784
modified: 2009-02-27 11:07:24.083000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, Llandridod Wells, Castell Collen, Roman Camp
ScientificName: Triticum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Poaceae
genus: Triticum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From the excavations at the camp of Castell Collen, from a trench about 1.5 ft deep.  Note to museum: This was given to me by Morgan Lewis of Ceviadag Road, Aberystwyth.  It is a fine sample of wheat of the same kind as usually found on Roman sites. JHH 7/11/1913


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026786
modified: 2019-03-20 10:43:52.117000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, Hunsbury
ScientificName: Triticum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Poaceae
genus: Triticum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From the Danes Camp at Hunsbury.  Letter in archives - collection Pre-Roman and Late-Celtic or Early Iron Period.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026788
modified: 2008-05-07 15:29:00.430000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
ScientificName: Tamarix nilotica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Ehrenb.) Bunge
kingdom: Plantae
family: Tamaricaceae
genus: Tamarix
specificEpithet: nilotica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fragments of stems of date palm fibre from hammock found in tomb of Qeut? XXth Dynasty.  See case 55.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026790
modified: 2011-05-11 14:26:49.110000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
identifiedBy: Tackholm Vivi
ScientificName: Tamarix nilotica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Ehrenb.) Bunge
kingdom: Plantae
family: Tamaricaceae
genus: Tamarix
specificEpithet: nilotica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  2 items: 1. Tamarix nilotica found in grave of Graeco-Roman period 1st c. BC and 2. Juniperus phoenica L. found among stuffing of crocodile mummy in Hawara cemetery Egypt.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026791
modified: 2008-05-07 15:22:27.947000
country: Zimbabwe
countryCode: ZW
locality: Zimbabwe, ruins of Great Zimbabwe.
ScientificName: Trachylobium
scientificNameAuthorship: Hayne
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Trachylobium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Trachylobnium or Copaifera from ruins supposed to be the site of Ophir. Specimen about 3000 years old.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026792
modified: 2006-06-12 16:29:15.723000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt
eventDate: 1911-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1911
ScientificName: Tilia
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Malvaceae
genus: Tilia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter in archives.  Fragment from panel on which roman portrait painted. 1st Century AD. Lime wood Transverse and Radial sections


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026795
modified: 2011-05-11 14:27:48.930000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Africa, Northern Africa, Hawara
ScientificName: Juniperus phoenicea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Juniperus
specificEpithet: phoenicea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From the interior of a crocodile mummy found in the cemetery of Hawara. Graeco-Roman period.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026798
modified: 2009-07-21 13:03:53.520000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: England, Somerset, Bath
ScientificName: Ulmus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Ulmaceae
genus: Ulmus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Wood from tree under foundations of monastery c. 700 AD.  The City Architect, Major Davis says: in excavating adjoining the buildings that formed part of the Ancient Monastery of Bath, which it is believed was commenced about 676 or possibly as late as 781, I found a tree placed to secure the foundation of somewhat large size and which judging from its bark and other peculiarities I believe was elm.  Dec 2, 1901.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026799
modified: 2006-06-12 16:17:34.953000
recordedBy: Schweinfurth GA
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt
ScientificName: Vitis vinifera
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Vitaceae
genus: Vitis
specificEpithet: vinifera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  2 specimens.  1 = Vitis vinifera from tombs at Dra Abdul Negga, Thebes. and 2 = Ficus sycomorus L, from a mummy XXth Dynasty, Schech Abd-el-Qurna. Specimens originally displayed in Origins of Plant Cultivation [Case 91] and Plant Material from Ancient Egypt in Museum No.1


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026805
modified: 2008-05-07 15:13:44.127000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
identifiedBy: Hepper FN
ScientificName: Ziziphus lotus
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Lam.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: lotus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Also Balanites aegyptiaca seeds (41.1974.21) and Mimusops schimperi seeds (41.1974.22) 10.1974 No provenance. Number of B.aegyptiaca 5. Number of M.schimperi 2.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026807
modified: 2006-08-03 16:24:35.430000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Somerset, Meare Lake Village
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Excavated September 1933. I am unable to identify these seeds because they are so far decomposed that iit is impossible to study their anatomy. Mr Boodle also looked at them and is unable to make any suggestions. They somewhat resemble beans, but this resemblance may be purely superficial Signed C.R.M. 23/10/1933 'I am quite certain they will not germinate' 'Apparently no probability of germinating ? a few being tested' 'None germinated' J.H.T. 9.xi.33.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026808
modified: 2006-08-03 16:33:00.300000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Upper Egypt, Akhmin
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Found at Akhmin Upper Egypt, 2nd century BC. I am sending a small piece of wood given me by the Keeper of the Museum at Cairo. It is a piece of an ancient coffin of the 2nd cent. BC.  It looks like cedar and what is said to have been imported into Egypt from Syria at a remote date.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026809
modified: 2003-01-08 14:03:46.557000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Meare Lake Village
ScientificName: Prunus avium
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rosaceae
genus: Prunus
specificEpithet: avium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Dr Metcalfe has examined the 'seeds' from Meare Lake Village again, and considers their appearance suggests P.avium. bean or wild cherry, rather than peas, but it is impossible to arrive at any definite conclusions. Excavated Sept. 1933 c.500 BC.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026810
modified: 2007-03-15 15:26:52.383000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Thebes
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Portion of a plant found in the Courtyard of Tomb 217 Thebes (XIXth Dynasty 1100 BC.)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026811
modified: 2010-04-19 13:05:47.737000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt
ScientificName: Origanum majorana
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Lamiaceae
genus: Origanum
specificEpithet: majorana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Garland or wreath composed of O. majorana, Celosia cristata, Heleocharis palustris and Chrysanthemum sp. (flower) Althaea sp corolla L.A.B. 13.8.19. From ancient burials of the Roman Age.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026812
modified: 2018-07-24 16:47:34.783000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Sikkim, Tibetan mountains
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cotton cloth with stamped figure of Sakya Singh and sacred sentences. Hung about sacred places. Stored in B5


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026814
modified: 2008-05-07 15:18:26.323000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
identifiedBy: Hepper FN
ScientificName: Ziziphus spina-christi
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Desf.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: spina-christi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Ziziphus spina-christi Leaves (yellow), Mimusops schimperi Leaves (Dark brown Cyperus esculentus Corms (in pot). No provenance. M.schimperi 41.1974.14 C.esculentus 41.1974.1510.1974


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026816
modified: 2007-03-07 16:07:48.223000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
ScientificName: Lychnis coeli-rosa
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Desr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Caryophyllaceae
genus: Lychnis
specificEpithet: coeli-rosa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Wreath of flowers of L.coeli-rosa, sprigs of Origanum majorana, papyrus pith and coils of copper tinsel. Sweet marjoram - O.majorana


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026822
modified: 2010-04-19 13:07:06.847000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Lahun
ScientificName: Ziziphus spina-christi
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Desf.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: spina-christi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Roots from trees planted round the XII Dynasty Pyramid at Lahun. Root from box of roots and stems ? not Saluadora pessica (?) root, but it appears likely that it may be the root of Zizyphus spina-christi. I have not seen the root of this species but only the wood of the stem. From LA Boodle Sept. 1935.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026823
modified: 2010-08-03 08:56:45.540000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
identifiedBy: Hepper FN
ScientificName: Arecaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Bercht. & J.Presl
kingdom: Plantae
family: Arecaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Palm fibre ? and string. Papyrus strip binding enclosed in linen cloth (Fragment remaining) Hepper's number 123


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026825
modified: 2024-07-18 11:31:01.233000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Naucratis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Resin disinterred from a heap of rubbish among the ruins of Naucratis and dates from the 6th century.  See archives for report on resins used by the ancient Egyptians by EM Holmes. The report lists the properties and characterists of the resin.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026828
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Tel-el-Amarna
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Charcoal from unidentified wood, for analysis. T.A.21 Shown in case 55 Main Museum 1968


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026829
modified: 2010-04-19 13:06:48.147000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Lahun
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Leaves, etc., of various plants from Ancient Burials of the Roman Age. 8 sp involved. Vitis sp (leaf) L.A.B. 13.8.19.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026835
recordNumber: 92
modified: 2016-03-02 12:26:02.887000
recordedBy: Martin GT
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Saqqara, Sacred Animal Necropolis
ScientificName: Cyperus papyrus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cyperaceae
genus: Cyperus
specificEpithet: papyrus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Probably palm and papryus.  UCL 2015 - This sandal lining appears to be made from papyrus and/or linen


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026839
recordNumber: 143B
modified: 2006-08-17 14:18:47.060000
recordedBy: Martin GT
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Saqqara
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Memo to Dr Cutler & Richard Moore from Nigel Hepper. Date: 30.1.78. No. 143B The enclosed plant was included with the Ancient Egyptian material from Saqqara sent in by Dr Martin. Although it looks like a Zingiber ? inflorescence you will note that the head detaches from the stalk. I enclose a head of maize picked up from the ground by the students plots and think it looks similar in which case it cannot (or should not) be pre-Columbus. Could you please check this and comment on the identity of the stalk?  Broken cob sampled (2 florets) for radiocarbon dating for Carl Johanessen 16/02/02 Mark Nesbitt. Result: post - 1945


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026843
recordNumber: 119
modified: 2006-08-08 16:05:02.870000
recordedBy: Martin GT
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Saqqara
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Memo to Dr Cutler 25.2.1980 from Nigel Hepper. David, I should be grateful if the enclosed Ancient Egyptian brush could be examined to decide whether it is date palm. Would it be possible to take a fragment from the side where there is already sign of recent damage, rather than at the end. It looks to me as if the stepped end was used as a stirrer: what do you think? I like the way the bristle fibres have dried in clumps - I wonder who was the last Egyptian to use it, when and what he was painting/writing!


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026846
recordNumber: 36
recordedBy: Martin GT
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Saqqara
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Ball of fibrous material - any suggestions? I wondered whether it could be Posidonea???


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026847
modified: 2006-08-17 14:25:10.253000
recordedBy: Martin GT
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Saqqara
ScientificName: Mimusops
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapotaceae
genus: Mimusops
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Wreath from ancient Egypt. Unknown provenance. Box marked Specimens of wreaths. N. Saqqara season 1967-68? Sector 1. Temple debris dating from 18th Dyn to 30 th Dyn. Bulk of it from c.26-30 Dyns. Carbonised lentils from ruins of mud hut dwelling of late date, 30th Dyn or later.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026848
recordNumber: 5
modified: 1997-09-08 00:00:00
recordedBy: Martin GT
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Saqqara, Sacred Animal Necropolis
identifiedBy: Hepper FN
ScientificName: Allium sativum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Amaryllidaceae
genus: Allium
specificEpithet: sativum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Diagram of leaf, c4mm culm no stomata seen on epidermis. 4' rows stomata all equal size, not wavy only slightly so. Too short for C. shimperanus rest too small to read! Leaves tied up with Cyperus cf alopecuroides ?? epidermis examined.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026849
recordNumber: 32
recordedBy: Martin GT
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Saqqara
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Nigel Hepper, Egyptian Mat. Looks like strings and thread rejects probably Hyphaene or Phoenix?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026850
recordNumber: 74, 54, 109
recordedBy: Martin GT
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Saqqara
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sacred Animal Necropolis.  Section breaking easily, Desmostachya bound with Hyphaene.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026870
modified: 2019-03-20 12:16:20.337000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Earthen ware from tombs around the Pyramid of Abou Roash, Egypt Presented by Mrs Warnock 234, Kew Road Surrey in 1938 Collection comprises pots and Necklaces.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026872
modified: 1994-05-25 00:00:00
recordedBy: Schweinfurth GA
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Thebes, Northern Africa, Africa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fragments of wood etc from a secret vault of the Kings of the XXIst Dynasty (1100-1000 BC.) Discovered  1881 at Deir el Bakari Thebes.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026875
modified: 2011-05-11 13:34:33.567000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Resin probably benzoin found on the cloth of a mummy in the cemetery of Hawara. WM Flinders Petrie


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026876
recordedBy: Schweinfurth GA
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
ScientificName: Acacia arabica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Lam.) Willd.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Acacia
specificEpithet: arabica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Flowers from wreaths from the coffin of Aahmes 1st (1700 BC.) Carthamus tinctorius from coffin of Ahmenotep


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026877
modified: 1994-05-25 00:00:00
recordedBy: Schweinfurth GA
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Thebes, Dier el Bahari, Northern Africa, Africa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From a secret vault of the Kings of the XXIst Dynasty (1100-1000 BC.) Discovered in 1881 at Deir el Bahari


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026878
modified: 2010-04-19 13:06:34.930000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Lahun
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source: Roots from the trees planed round the XII Dynasty Pyramid at Lahun. Label source: Wood from the tree pits. Planted round the XII Dynasty Pyramid at Lahun. Letter 379, 1921 XIV p.148 Roots from Trees planted round the Pyramid at Lahun (XII Dynasty) submitted for identification by Prof. Petrie. The final attempt to identify these specimens has unfortunately proved unsuccessful. Bark is present on some of the roots, but its condition is such that several details of its structure cannot be determined. The structure of the wood is much better preserved, but has not afforded a definite clue to the affinities of the plant, although a comparison has been made with the wood of a number of plants selected on grounds of probability. Signed L.A.B. 12.ix.21 Roots re-examined. They do not agree in structure with Salvadora pessica, which has been suggested. L.A.B. 5.3.23.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026879
modified: 2006-07-28 17:18:58.063000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Faras
ScientificName: Balanites aegyptiaca
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Delile
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zygophyllaceae
genus: Balanites
specificEpithet: aegyptiaca
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Meroitic remains found at Faras. J. ? 15.x.12. Found at Faras near the second cataract of the Nile in connection with Meroitic remains of the early centuries AD. (see letter 485 1912, F Griffith 11 Norham Gardens Oxford.)  JHH


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026880
modified: 2010-02-15 13:50:01.800000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Faras
ScientificName: Mimusops schimperi
scientificNameAuthorship: Hochst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapotaceae
genus: Mimusops
specificEpithet: schimperi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mimusops near elengi J ?st 15.x.12. Found at Faras near the second cataract of the Nile in connection with Meroitic Remains of the early centuries AD. (see letter 485, 1912 F Griffith, 11 Norham Gardens, Oxford.) JHH


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026881
modified: 2010-02-15 13:50:39.983000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Africa, Northern Africa, Faras
ScientificName: Cordia myxa
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Boraginaceae
genus: Cordia
specificEpithet: myxa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Found at Faras near the second cataract of the Nile in connection with Meroitic Remains of the early centuries AD. (see letter 485, 1912  F. Griffith, 11 Norham Gardens, Oxford.) JHH


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026882
modified: 2008-05-07 15:37:30.887000
country: Zimbabwe
countryCode: ZW
locality: South Rhodesia, Inyanga, Niekirk Ruins
ScientificName: Vigna unguiculata
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Walp.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Vigna
specificEpithet: unguiculata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Photographs of area included with specimens, site V Showing grinding places. From H Wild Branch of Botany and Plant Pathology, Dept of Research and Specialist Services, PO Box 25, Causeway, S.Rhodesia. V.unguiculata - Site XV B - IR.F 275 Pernisetum typhoides - Site XV C - IRF 226  Number of seeds 20+ 'Munga' Ricinus communis - Site XV B - IRF 275 Number of seeds 3 Pernisetum typhoides - Site XV B IRF 275   Number of seeds 10+ Specimen includes 3 letters, two of which relate to identification of seeds (originals in archives, copies with specimen) Letter of Botanical notes relating to the archaeology of the Niekirk Ruins, 'The identity of seeds found in the ruin sites' H.Wild.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026883
modified: 2006-08-07 16:16:03.637000
recordedBy: Flinders Petrie W
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Hawara
eventDate: 1888-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1888
identifiedBy: Tackholm Vivi
ScientificName: Lychnis coeli-rosa
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Desr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Caryophyllaceae
genus: Lychnis
specificEpithet: coeli-rosa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Wreath composed of flowers of L. coeli-rosa, petals of Rosa sancta L., berrie berries of Withania somnifera, Helichrysum stoechas and pith of Cyperus papyrus. Found in a grave in the cemetery of Hawara Egypt. Graeco-Roman period (circ.1st century BC.)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026884
recordNumber: 3500
modified: 2013-07-28 11:23:45.030000
recordedBy: Brunton G
eventRemarks: Dr Stapf (the late)
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt, Africa, Northern Africa
eventDate: 1933-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1933
ScientificName: Triticum dicoccum
scientificNameAuthorship: Schrank ex Schübl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Poaceae
genus: Triticum
specificEpithet: dicoccum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Badarian Age. Oldest Grain Known. Determination changed from Poaceae to T. dicoccum, 2013. MN


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026902
modified: 2008-05-07 15:38:16.830000
country: Zimbabwe
countryCode: ZW
locality: South Rhodesia, Inyanga, Niekirk Ruins
ScientificName: Voandzeia subterranea
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Thouars
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Voandzeia
specificEpithet: subterranea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Site XVB IRF. Specimens found in Niekirk ruins. The Van Niekirk Ruins - are a vast system of stone terraces, rough stone dwelling circles and pits on the Western side of Inyanga, South Rhodesia. They are presumed by modern archaeologiststohave been inhabited some 800 years ago (more or less contemporaneously with Zimbabwe) by a Bantu people with a high level of iron age culture who had a system of agriculture involving the use of irrigation furrows, stone terracing and fortified pits in which their animals (a small breed of cow probably) were kept almost permanently. They adopted this system of agriculture and type of building presumably as the result of pressure from other raiding and pastoral tribes. The seeds shown here were recovered from old fire places which were opened up in the course of normal archaeological investigations. They are all completely carbonised and could only be determined by shape. Their interest lies in the fact that they are the same as seeds grown by Africans today and so reinforce the archaeologists view that the peoples concerned were Bantu and not originating outside Africa, Who would probably have grown crops of Asiatic or European origin and type.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026907
modified: 2008-05-07 15:38:57.483000
country: Zimbabwe
countryCode: ZW
locality: South Rhodesia, Inyanga, Niekirk Ruins
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See notes cat. 26902 for details. Xylariaceae 9625, Very little doubt that these are small sclerotia of Xylaria nigripes (Kl.) Cooke From 'Place of Offerings' site midden RHBT albot?? (N.H.Pretoria)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000026908
modified: 1999-02-24 00:00:00
country: Zimbabwe
countryCode: ZW
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
locality:
Zimbabwe, Africa, South Tropical Africa, Inyanga, Niekirk Ruins, Site XVB Ropoko, (Southern Rhodesia)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027003
modified: 2006-05-22 15:55:46.437000
country: Switzerland
countryCode: CH
locality: Switzerland, Robenhausen
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This cone of hardened clay is supposed to have been used as a weight in the manufacture of cloth fabrics, by a rude bone or Webestuhl.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027014
modified: 2007-04-17 17:54:16.453000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Lanarkshire, Airdrie
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Species of better specimen can probably be named if sent to Mr E.A. Newell Arber, Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. (Laboratory Kew June 19.1909.) Specimen labelled as Sigillaria elliptica


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027035
modified: 2006-05-19 12:27:22.767000
country: Ireland
countryCode: IE
locality: Ireland, Kilkenny County, Kiltorcan Hill
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  1098. The earliest fossil ferns come from the Middle and Upper Devonian and possess characteristics somewhat intermediate between those of ferns and the Psilophyta (Rhynia etc.) Recognisably fern-like fossils date from the Mid Carboniferous. For further details see Sporne, K 'The Morphology of Pteridophyta' and Scagel et al. 'An Evolutionary Survey of the Plant Kingdom.'


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027053
modified: 2006-05-22 10:58:09.320000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Lanarkshire, Airdrie
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  With handwritten note by DH Scott.  Appears identical with that of Binney, from Airdrie.  See his obs. on structure of Foss. Plantns II Padae. Soc. 1871, pl. IX Figs 1 & 2.  The real nature of the cone is doubtful. Siqillariostrobus sp.  Coal measures.  See letter 119/1904. Mr Newell to Mr Hillier. Nov 1904.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027055
modified: 2011-03-30 17:49:56.557000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Airdrie
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Spore coal containing numerous megaspores. Mr Russell  Formed of sporangia from the Lepidostr.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027058
country: Germany
countryCode: DE
locality: Saxony, Chemnitz
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Myeloxylon sp (Petiole of a Medullosa), and section of stem of one of the Cycadofilices. No 16 and 19.  No. 16- Chemnitz, Dr F Krantz, Rheinishes Mineralien Contor, Bonn.  No.19, Hilbersdorf.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027065
modified: 2010-04-19 13:12:10.203000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Norfolk, Mundsley, Seacliffs
ScientificName: Pinus mugo var. pumilio
scientificNameAuthorship: (Haenke) Zenari
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: mugo
infraspecificEpithet: pumilio
taxonRank: Variety
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A dwarf pine of the Alps.  Found with an elephants bones, neither now found living in Great Britain.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027067
modified: 2007-01-08 14:44:52.533000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, England, Norfolk, Near Trimingham, Forest Bed
ScientificName: Pinus sylvestris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: sylvestris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  With other plants.  Letter to Director: I have some rather nice specimens of fossil cones, which I collected some years ago from the Cromer Forest Bed.  Would they be acceptable for the conifer collection in the museum? Answer: Fossil cones, bark, wood, etc. from Cromer Forest Bed.  If advice is required regarding mounting and preserving them I shall be pleased to give it, there is no need to acknowledge them. 3.7.28.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027068
modified: 2010-04-19 13:15:13.503000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Euorpe, Northern Europe, England, Kent, Lower Greensand
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fragmented note included.   Pinus macrocephalus, Lindley and Hutton sp. Plate XIV figs 1.2.6.7.  Zamia macrocephala.  Foss. Flora vol 11 p 117 pl. 125, 1833-35.  Zamiostrobus macrocephalus Endlicher. Gen. Plant p 72 1836-40 Zamites m. Morris Ann. Nat. Hist. ser i vol VII p 116 1841 Piniter m. Brongn. Dict. univ. d Hist. Nat p 317 1849, Ann des Sc. Nat. ser iii Vol XI p 285, 1849. Zamiostrobus henslowii Monogr. Cycad. p75. 1861. Pinites macrocephalus Carr. Geol. Mag. Vol. III p 5 pl. XX 1866 and Jour. Bot. p10 pl XVIII 1867.  Extract from British Eocene Flora by John Starkie Gardner Fhs & c. Vol II Gymnospermae (1883 - 1886) p. 63.  JHH Jan 6, 1904.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027086
locality: Stonefield
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Stonefield slate, Lower oolite Information fron Mr Dyer. Named in  ?  Dr Scott June 19 1906 JHH


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027089
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Lanarkshire, Carluke
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sir JD Hooker, in Quart. J. F. Geolog. Soc. Vol.X, p199. The original specimen from Carluke is in the possession of W Gourlie, Glasgow


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027091
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Sutherlandshire
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Stem and leaf scars. See Trans. Linn. Soc.Vol. XXVI. Oolite Brora, Sutherlandshire. Cast from a specimen in Dunrobin castle Museum No 23 case


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027092
country: Ireland
countryCode: IE
locality: Ireland, Queens'County, Abbey Leix, Colt wood
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Specimen of calcareous sub-soil on which the peat rests in Colt wood (Viscount de Vesci)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027109
modified: 2006-09-25 14:55:30.403000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Andaman Islands
ScientificName: Gnetum scandens
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Gnetaceae
genus: Gnetum
specificEpithet: scandens
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  65. Pi-lita. Gnetum edule from the fibre of which string is prepared and used almost exclusively by women, chiefly for the manufacture of hand fishing nets and sleeping mats. It is not sufficiently strong to serve as arrow fastening, though used for this purpose.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027110
modified: 2019-07-18 12:02:56.587000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Andaman Islands
ScientificName: Gnetum scandens
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Gnetaceae
genus: Gnetum
specificEpithet: scandens
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Hand fishing net, made of the fibre of Gnetum scandens, Roxb. Constructed by women and girls who catch large quantities of fish and prawns with it, both in streams and among rocks along the coast at low tide. The frame is made of a length of a creeper known to them as Orta-tat, the ends being bound together to form a handle. Exhibited in  Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027160
modified: 2006-09-22 11:46:06.413000
country: Ukraine
countryCode: UA
locality: Ukraine
ScientificName: Ephedra distachya
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Ephedraceae
genus: Ephedra
specificEpithet: distachya
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Copy of letter from Dr JA Henry, Wellcome Chemical Research Labs, 6 King St. Snow Hill, EC1 to Director 11.iv.27 'With further reference to your letter of the 11th  ? forwarding specimens of E.altissima and E.fragilis from Algiers. I have to say these have now been examined with the following results: E.altissima - total alkaloids present .05 - nature of alkaloides indeterminate on the quanity available, E.fragilis- total alkaloids present .14 - nature of alkaloids, chiefly pseudo-ephedrine. Neither of these are of commercial interest in comparison with the Chinese ephedra which is much richer in alkaloids almost wholly ephedrine.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027163
modified: 2006-09-22 15:11:25.987000
country: Algeria
countryCode: DZ
locality: Algiers
ScientificName: Ephedra fragilis
scientificNameAuthorship: Desf.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Ephedraceae
genus: Ephedra
specificEpithet: fragilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Abundant in dunes around Algiers.  See copy of letter in bottle with specimen of E. altissima for account of analysis.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027164
modified: 2006-09-22 11:46:49.947000
country: Spain
countryCode: ES
locality: Spain
ScientificName: Ephedra major
scientificNameAuthorship: Host
kingdom: Plantae
family: Ephedraceae
genus: Ephedra
specificEpithet: major
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Twigs of E. gracilis.  The specimens marked B so far as can be determined from the rubbed material are also E nebrodensis Ten. var villarsii Stapf.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027165
modified: 2019-06-24 10:12:46.037000
country: Afghanistan
countryCode: AF
locality: Afghanistan
ScientificName: Ephedra
scientificNameAuthorship: Tourn. ex L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Ephedraceae
genus: Ephedra
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Illegible notice from Aitchison JET, Exhibited in Plants+People exhibition in Museum No.1, May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027178
modified: 2006-08-24 09:50:16.073000
ScientificName: Agathis australis
scientificNameAuthorship: (D.Don) Lindl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Araucariaceae
genus: Agathis
specificEpithet: australis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Presented to B.M. by Mrs A Henley. Camborne House, Torquay, Jan. 10/11  To, A.B. Rendle Esq. Dear Sir, I am sorry that various hindrances have delayed the despatch of the Kauri Gum which I offered to the museum last summer. I am sending itoff today together withn two pieces of the semi fossilised gum which the Maoris dig up in places at a considerable distance from the tree now living. This last is valuable, as it makes a good varnish, but the fresh gum from the living trees is of no use except that it is sometimes cut and polished as an ornament. A Henley. Original in archives.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027185
modified: 2007-01-19 10:25:07.783000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand North Island, Australasia, New Zealand, Kaukapakapa
eventDate: 1885-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1885
identifiedBy: Lewis John
ScientificName: Agathis australis
scientificNameAuthorship: (D.Don) Lindl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Araucariaceae
genus: Agathis
specificEpithet: australis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This is a highly purified sample of Kauri. I suspect it was collected in a skin, bit by bit, charred by melting. Then the skin rotted away, leaving a bottle shaped object.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027186
modified: 2006-09-25 11:38:16.780000
identifiedBy: Kears
ScientificName: Agathis australis
scientificNameAuthorship: (D.Don) Lindl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Araucariaceae
genus: Agathis
specificEpithet: australis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Scraping must mean removing the floating rubbish from the dirty gum when molten. This is dirty gum with only the largest bits of tree removed.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000000272
recordNumber: 4533
modified: 1994-01-24 00:00:00
recordedBy: Schodde R, Craven LA
country: Papua New Guinea
countryCode: PG
eventDate: 1966-02-27 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 27/02/1966
ScientificName: Cananga odorata
scientificNameAuthorship: (Lam.) Hook.f. & Thomson
kingdom: Plantae
family: Annonaceae
genus: Cananga
specificEpithet: odorata
locality:
Papua New Guinea, Gulf district, Nr mouth of Tauri river, Malalaua river, Tapala village environs, New Guinea, Malesia, Asia Tropical

occurrenceRemarks:
Entry book - Margins of monsoon forest. Tree ca 15m high; bark smooth, shallowly furrowed, pale grey, blaze cream-brown; wood cream; leaves rather dark dull green above, pale below; tepals mid yellow; fruit dark dull green.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027201
modified: 2006-06-12 16:21:05.317000
ScientificName: Agathis brownii
scientificNameAuthorship: (Lem.) L.H.Bailey
kingdom: Plantae
family: Araucariaceae
genus: Agathis
specificEpithet: brownii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Naturally disarticulated with vertical section of the summit of the tree showing the bases of some of the best formed branches.  Attached note, some of which is illegible.  Middle has been removed from one of the branches to show how disposition of the wood occurs when kledoptosis is effected. See archives.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027214
modified: 2006-12-11 16:17:47.283000
country: Malaysia
countryCode: MY
locality: Malesia, Asia-Tropical
ScientificName: Agathis dammara
scientificNameAuthorship: (Lamb.) Poir.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Araucariaceae
genus: Agathis
specificEpithet: dammara
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The medium hard grade constituting about 20 per cent of the output of the Dutch East Indies.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027220
modified: 2010-06-08 16:46:45.113000
country: Malaysia
countryCode: MY
locality: Malesia, Asia-Tropical
ScientificName: Agathis dammara
scientificNameAuthorship: (Lamb.) Poir.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Araucariaceae
genus: Agathis
specificEpithet: dammara
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The hard grade obtained chiefly from forks of branches of old trees and constitutes about 10 per cent of the Dutch East Indies output.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027224
modified: 2007-09-06 16:18:00.077000
country: Philippines
countryCode: PH
locality: Philippines, Asia-Tropical, Malesia
ScientificName: Agathis dammara
scientificNameAuthorship: (Lamb.) Poir.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Araucariaceae
genus: Agathis
specificEpithet: dammara
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Also envelope of resin after melting at about 120 degrees C. Letter 38, 1924:XV p 166 - Mr Guggenheim, Inform him that in reference to his letter of the 14th and 16th inst. that the sample of material from the Philippines, submitted for ident


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027241
modified: 2006-12-01 15:14:44.143000
country: Solomon Islands
countryCode: SB
locality: Solomon Islands, Island of Vani Koro
ScientificName: Agathis macrophylla
scientificNameAuthorship: (Lindl.) Mast.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Araucariaceae
genus: Agathis
specificEpithet: macrophylla
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mr CM Woodford, Resident Commissioner Tulagi, British Solomon Islands. Leaves at Herbarium Letter dated July 26th 1913 - Sir, I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th May last, together eith a specimen of the foliage anda sample of the resin obtained from a tree in Vanikoro Is.  The specimens submitted for identification are Agathis macrophylla Lindl., a species to the Kauri Pine (Agathis australis). Agathis macrophylla was discovered in 1850 by Mr Charles Moore in Vanikoro Is. The tree seems to have escaped the observation of Admiral Dunont d'Urville as no mention of it is made in the account of the voyage or in the botanical supplement. For a commercial valuation I have pleasure in enclosing copy of a letter received from a London firm to whom your example was submitted. Signed The Director. Copy of report on a sample of 'Gum Copal' (A.macrophylla) from the Island of Vanikoro, submitted to Kew by the Resident Commissioner, Tulagi. Messre Lewis & Peat, 6 Mincing Lane London. 24th July 1913. To Keeper of Museums, Kew. ' With reference to your sample of gum, which we beg to return herewith; we have carefully examined same and find it to be a species of Fiji or New Caledonia Gum Copal, the value of which varies from 35/- per cwt for clean scraped to 20/- for rough coated as per your sample.  The goods are sold ex store London, with a discount of 2 1/2 % and 2lb per case allowed as draft.  Our brokerage for selling is 1%. The article would not pay to deal in, in any quantity less than one ton'.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027242
modified: 2006-12-11 16:19:47.717000
country: New Caledonia
countryCode: NC
locality: New Caledonia, Pacific, Southwestern Pacific, Canala
ScientificName: Agathis lanceolata
scientificNameAuthorship: Warb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Araucariaceae
genus: Agathis
specificEpithet: lanceolata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A gum from New Caledonia obtained at Canala on the east coast side of the Island by Mr Drayier and given by him to me.  With this is a sample of the wood of the tree from which the gum is collected. The incision made in the bark of the tree produces a copious  flow of the gum.  The gum is soluble in alchohol and burns with a pleasant odour.  Very large quanities of the gum might be readily obtained in the Island if it were found suitable for varnish or otherwise. The wood of the tree is commonly used for building purposes. The bark and leaf of the tree are said to be like those of a Dammara. HM Mosely.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027274
modified: 2010-04-21 14:53:45.233000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Cornwall, Pencarrow
ScientificName: Araucaria araucana
scientificNameAuthorship: (Molina) K.Koch
kingdom: Plantae
family: Araucariaceae
genus: Araucaria
specificEpithet: araucana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Ripened on a monoecious branch of a tree grown in Pencarrow. Gardeners Chronicle Sep.2.1899 p.195. As follows: A monoecious Araucaria imbricata - I send you a photograph of a portion of an Araucaria imbricata growing at Pencarrow, Bodmin. The tree bears two very fine female cones, and a great number of male catkins. The second cone is just below the prominent one, but unfortunately it is hidden by the crossing of the branches. These cones contain an unusually large proportion of good seeds, due no doubt, to the close proximity of so many pollen bearing catkins. The tree is situated at the foot of the famous Pencarrow rockery, quite 50 yards distant from any other examples of the same species. The nearest is a fine female tree, which has over 40 cones; these are rather small, and contain a small proportion of fertile seeds. I attribute this to the distance - quite 40 yards - from the nearest pollen bearing tree. The monoecious tree was purchased by Sir William Molesworth, the well known Secretary of State for the Colonies, from Messrs Knight and Perry, the predecessors of Messrs Veitch & Co, for # 25, in 1834. My employer Mrs Ford a sister of Sir William, graphically describes the ceremony of planting this at that time, most rare and curious tree. There was a large and distinguished house party at Pencarrow, and they assembled in solemn state to witness the ceremony of planting. Among them was Mr Charles Austin, the eminent lawyer, who after carelessly handling the plant, feelingly


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027299
modified: 2016-12-15 13:33:09.653000
country: Norfolk Island
countryCode: NF
locality: Norfolk Island, Australasia, Australia, Lord Howe Norfolk Island
ScientificName: Araucaria heterophylla
scientificNameAuthorship: (Salisb.) Franco
kingdom: Plantae
family: Araucariaceae
genus: Araucaria
specificEpithet: heterophylla
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Made from a knot of wood of N.I Pine  Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027305
modified: 2006-07-20 16:11:41.903000
ScientificName: Abies alba
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: alba
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Paper rope probably made from wood pulp.  Used by the German Army in the First World War.  1919.  Each strand of the rope consists of a strip of paper folded and twisted.  The paper is composed of chemically prepared Coniferous wood pulp, the wood being probably Abies. LaB 3.4.19.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027309
modified: 2006-12-11 11:59:01.327000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Devon, Okehampton
ScientificName: Abies alba
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: alba
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herbarium specimen.  Cult. E. Barnes FRCS, Bridge House, Lydford, Devon. Cone size 14cm/2.8cm  15cm/3.0cm  14cm/2.9cm  Unexpanded. Sketch showing angle of exerted bracts.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027310
modified: 2000-11-01 14:49:12.203000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe
ScientificName: Abies alba
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: alba
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Copy of letter from Mr Rundle to Dr Schlich, Bedford Office, Tavistock, 30.03.1900.  I have sent your three strawberry punnets in a box by parcels post today.  I am sorry  to have been so long about it.  Those sent were made by the children of a tenant who holds a few acres of fruit land.  The material for 12 dozen of them costs 1 shilling and six pence and the labour 1 shilling, which works out at nearly 5 for 1d. Boxes to hold 54 punnets in which they are sent to London market or elsewhere cost [7.5] each.  According to Dr Schlick these punnets are made from the wood of Silver Fir, Abies pectinata.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027313
recordNumber: 313
modified: 2007-08-31 12:36:49.323000
recordedBy: Allan OD
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: North America, Upper Valley of Newqually, Cascade Mountains
eventDate: 1896-10-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/10/1896
identifiedBy: Harvard Univ. Herb.
ScientificName: Abies amabilis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Douglas ex Loudon) J.Forbes
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: amabilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  5,500ft.  Flowers masc. strawberry red.  Flora of the Cascade Mts.  Frequent from alt. 2000 to 5500 ft . Cones 15 Oct, 1896, Fl. 3 June 1897.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027316
modified: 2003-11-13 13:27:30.993000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: Western North America, Northern America
ScientificName: Abies amabilis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Douglas ex Loudon) J.Forbes
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: amabilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Tenth Census of the US, Dept. of Forestry, Journey to the Pacific Coast, 1880  Coll. G Engelmann and CS Sargent.  Young tree.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027324
modified: 2007-01-08 16:03:35.160000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: Northern America, North Eastern America, Inverness
ScientificName: Abies balsamea
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: balsamea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  North East America.  Letter to archives:  Twenty trees about 20-25ft high, very healthy and coning profusely. Please name enclosed Prunus? the red fruit and yellow.  I send P. pisardii as it is such a ? this tree covered with fruit. (Sent to Mr Jackson)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027334
modified: 2001-01-26 15:37:01.310000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, Wigton, Kennedy, Lochurch Castle
ScientificName: Abies cephalonica
scientificNameAuthorship: Loudon
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: cephalonica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Approximate 80 years, height 75ft., Approximate height of branch from which the specimen came from 60 ft.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027339
modified: 2010-03-16 15:50:16.487000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Ware
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter headed Imperial Inst. Oct.7.1911 Dear Pallimar, Here are the cones of A.cephalonica var apollonis which I promised you. They are from a tree at Ware in Hertford. Some authorities consider this to be midway between A.cephalonica and A pectrate. It seems to be distinguished from A.cephalonica by the leaves which have acute not acuminate ? parts as in A.cephalonica. There is an interesting  account of the seeds in Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society 1863 p.141 by Murray. Signed AB Jackson


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027341
modified: 2010-07-02 10:40:16.337000
ScientificName: Abies cephalonica
scientificNameAuthorship: Loudon
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: cephalonica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From the original tree at Sir Banbury's Specimen of cone grown on a young tree planted ? 35 years ago sent by Dr Orford to Mr Donedefoell.(?) The label on it: Name unknown the length of the cone and fruits 9 inches - broken off by the gale of Oct. 14th the first year of 1881 any cones forming


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027350
modified: 2000-11-03 09:49:03.360000
recordedBy: Wyatt
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Kent, Bedgebury
ScientificName: Abies cilicica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Antoine & Kotschy) Carrière
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: cilicica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cone scales purplish red to purplish brown, basal scales in some dark green. Cones normally ovate tapering down  ? base to tip which maybe apiculate. 11.8 x 4.7 cm; 11.0 x 4.2 cm; 10.0 x 4.3 cm.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027356
modified: 2000-11-03 10:10:00.110000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain , Europe, Northern Europe, England, Sussex, Tilgate
ScientificName: Abies concolor
scientificNameAuthorship: (Gordon & Glend.) Lindl. ex Hildebr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: concolor
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cone dimensions - 7.8 x 3.3; 7.5 x 3.2. Cones breaking up ? Ovate tapering, ? apiculate.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027385
modified: 2000-11-03 11:07:30.647000
recordedBy: Wyatt
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Kent, Bedgebury
eventDate: 1950-08-16 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 16/08/1950
ScientificName: Abies firma
scientificNameAuthorship: Siebold & Zucc.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: firma
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Bedgebury No. 24C - 1925 Height 30ft, girth 3 ft 9 inches. Scales from centre of one cone. Dark form.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027395
modified: 2000-11-03 11:59:23.113000
recordedBy: Gordon G
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: British Columbia, Northern America, Canada
ScientificName: Abies grandis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Douglas ex D.Don) Lindl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: grandis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Case 15 Bottom right. Herb. George Gordon, Presented by Sir J.D. Hooker Dec., 1878. Gordons Pinetum, Ed.2.p.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027407
modified: 2006-08-01 17:13:35.943000
ScientificName: Abies homolepis
scientificNameAuthorship: Siebold & Zucc.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: homolepis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cones and foliage.  Cone size 7.8 x 2.5 cm, 7.0 x 2.4, 6.8 x 2.4, 7.8 x 2.57.0 x 2.4, 6.8 x 2.3


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027476
modified: 2006-12-11 14:33:33.780000
recordedBy: Wyatt FW
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Kent, Bedgebury
ScientificName: Abies procera f. glauca
scientificNameAuthorship: (Ravenscr.) Rehder
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: procera
infraspecificEpithet: glauca
taxonRank: Form
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cone 15.5 x 5.1cm Bract reflexed golden brown with points and midrib pale green. Scales dove grey.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027493
modified: 2001-01-19 09:54:20.947000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: West Bengal, Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent, India, Calcutta Simla
ScientificName: Abies spectabilis
scientificNameAuthorship: (D.Don) Mirb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: spectabilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Presented by the reporter on econ..??? to the Government of India. Registration No. 11446 File no. XXII.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027504
modified: 2000-11-07 10:29:36.577000
recordedBy: Wyatt O
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Kent, Bedgebury
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Bedgebury No. 16A - 1925. Height 34ft girth 2ft 9 inches. Seeds from centres of 4 cones.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027507
modified: 2007-04-05 11:32:12.220000
country: SU
countryCode: SU
locality: St. Petersburg
ScientificName: Abies veitchii
scientificNameAuthorship: Lindl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: veitchii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Ex Herb. Horti Bot. Petropolitani. Maximowicz Iter scundum. Recieved from Japan Yokohama, 1862.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027510
recordNumber: 60
modified: 2000-11-07 10:32:57.617000
recordedBy: Wyatt
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Sussex, Tilgate
ScientificName: Abies veitchii
scientificNameAuthorship: Lindl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Abies
specificEpithet: veitchii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Tilgate C Cone sizes 5.5 x 1.9 cm 5.6 x 1.9 cm 5.6 x 1.8 cm 5.6 x 1.9 cm 5.8 x 1.9 cm 5.6 x 1.9 cm


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027548
locality: Buegah Dagh
ScientificName: Cedrus libani
scientificNameAuthorship: A.Rich.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Cedrus
specificEpithet: libani
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Th. Kotschy. Iter Cilicicum in Tauri alpes 'Bulgar Dagh' 490 C.Libani Barr. Cortex Crescit in devexis meridiei obversis sylvasque efformat Altitude 4000 - 6500 ped. Die 17 Aug. 1853


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027554
locality: Bulgah Dagh Mountains
ScientificName: Cedrus libani var. glauca
scientificNameAuthorship: Carrière
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Cedrus
specificEpithet: libani
infraspecificEpithet: glauca
taxonRank: VARIETY
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Th. Kotschy. Iter cilicicum in Tauri alpes 'Bulgar Dagh' 416 C.Libani Barr.  Kateran Turcorum Extensas sylvas per juga et devexa australia cum Abiete cilicica Junip. excelsa, J.foetidissima efformat elevatione 4000 - 6500 ped. Aug. 1853.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027565
modified: 2000-11-07 14:58:33.157000
country: Italy
countryCode: IT
locality: Italy, Europe, Sotheastern Europe
ScientificName: Keteleeria fortunei
scientificNameAuthorship: (A.Murray bis) Carrière
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Keteleeria
specificEpithet: fortunei
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Stabilimento d'Orticoltura e d'Acclimazione Ditta Fratelli Rovelli Lago Maggiore Pallanza


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027566
modified: 2006-12-01 16:02:30.293000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe
ScientificName: Larix
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Larix
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Larch leaves felted together by the agitation of the water, taken from the bottoms of lakes in Shropshire and in Bagshot Park.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027576
modified: 2000-11-13 15:48:32.717000
country: Switzerland
countryCode: CH
locality: Switzerland, Europe, Middle Europe, Canton Valais
ScientificName: Larix decidua
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Larix
specificEpithet: decidua
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Manna v. Wallis Saastal 1700 metres. August 1919. Larch Manna: collected in Switzerland, in Canton Valais, in 1919. Specimen given to Prof A Henry by Dr Keller of Zurich. Pharmacautical Journal ?? 12,1924. See also Kew Bulletin 1924. page272.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000000276
recordNumber: 4236
modified: 1994-01-18 00:00:00
recordedBy: Schodde R, Craven LA
country: Papua New Guinea
countryCode: PG
eventDate: 1966-01-16 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 16/01/1966
ScientificName: Cananga odorata
scientificNameAuthorship: (Lam.) Hook.f. & Thomson
kingdom: Plantae
family: Annonaceae
genus: Cananga
specificEpithet: odorata
locality:
Papua New Guinea, New Guinea, Gulf District, ca.1 mile NW of Ihu, Vailala River, Summit of Ihu Hill, Malesia, Asia Tropical

occurrenceRemarks:
Entry book - Primary forest margin. Umbrageous tree ca.25m high, dbh of trunk ca.32cm; bark smooth finely pustular, blotched variously mid grey, blaze dark cream; wood pale cream; leaves dark glossy green above, paler and dull below; perianth pale yellowish green, young fruit rather dark glossy green.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027643
modified: 2025-09-10 10:34:02.770000
country: Switzerland
countryCode: CH
locality: Switzerland, Europe, Middle, Europe, Val D'Illiez, Champery
ScientificName: Picea abies
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) H.Karst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: abies
occurrenceRemarks:
11cm diameter base, 15cm central width of basket body, 9.5cm diameter opening. Coiled root, core c. o.4-0.5cm. Wrapping element 0.4cm – 0.6cm approx. Hole in centre of base – can’t get it tighter? EBN: 112.1894.6 Basket made of roots of Picea Excelsa.   Notes by Ruth Stungo, transcribed by CJ. 


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027644
modified: 2000-11-14 10:06:18.567000
country: Norway
countryCode: NO
locality: Norway, Europe, Northern Europe, Stavanger
ScientificName: Picea abies
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) H.Karst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: abies
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Wooden bowl.  Available in sizes ranging from 4 to 15 ins, and priced from 2d to 1/1.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027645
modified: 2005-04-29 15:30:24.157000
country: Norway
countryCode: NO
locality: Norway, Europe, Northern Europe, Stavanger
ScientificName: Pinaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Spreng. ex F.Rudolphi
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Universally used in country places and by the poorer classes in towns, price from 3d to 10d per pair.  The largest pair are such as are used by labourers in the field and masons.  Generally made of fir but stronger ones made of Birch thesehowever are not so warm.  Tradesman of whom the present specimens were purchased has had about 3000 pairs through his hands during a period of 9 months.  Leather shoes are also worn. Letter in archives


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027647
ScientificName: Picea abies
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) H.Karst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: abies
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Used for stirring porridge, soup, etc. over the fire.  Town and country, price from .5 to 1 d.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027649
modified: 2025-09-10 10:37:00.860000
country: Sweden
countryCode: SE
locality: Sweden, Europe, Northern Europe, Gottenburg
ScientificName: Picea abies
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) H.Karst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: abies
occurrenceRemarks:
EBN 155.1856.4? Looping with twisted shavings of Picea abies (Pa). Element 0.6cm-1cm approx., brown, twisted. Looping into the lag. Started at base with a ring of loops. Increases in width by double loops in one lag. 2 plied twisted handles. Top rim finished by extra twist along lag. 2 plied twisted handles. Top rim finished by extra twist along lag.   155.1856.4 Basket and doormat of seal shavings from Gothenburg such as are commonly used there. *See Bichard p.145 ‘herring bag’.   Notes by Ruth Stungo, transcribed by CJ.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027652
modified: 2016-12-15 13:33:49.857000
country: SU
countryCode: SU
locality: Russia
ScientificName: Picea abies
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) H.Karst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: abies
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  For holding beer.  No 47 and label in Russian  Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027654
modified: 2025-09-10 10:28:55.063000
ScientificName: Pinaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Spreng. ex F.Rudolphi
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  All kinds of fancy work.  Lessons given in the work only for charities and bazaars.  29cm overall height, 21cm diameter of base, 26cm diameter of lid, 11.5cm height body of basket including lid.  S+S basket of 8 wide split slats (c. 3cm width – slightly tapered) woven with 1.0 approximate weaves – no proper border on basket or lid. Top weaving held by wrapping strip. Lid worked round handle and therefore fragile. Not made to last. *In order to get odd no. of stakes, one is split, on basket and on lid.  Notes by Ruth Stungo, transcribed by CJ.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027655
modified: 2016-12-15 13:34:08.437000
country: Sweden
countryCode: SE
locality: Sweden, Europe, Northern Europe
ScientificName: Picea abies
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) H.Karst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: abies
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  and other woods used by peasants in Sweden.  AES? (marked on wood)  Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027662
modified: 2000-11-14 10:05:31.857000
country: Norway
countryCode: NO
locality: Norway, Europe, Northern Europe, Stavanger
ScientificName: Picea abies
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) H.Karst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: abies
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Box used as a work box as well as for other purposes. They are made of various sizes, some much larger than this. Price from 1s to 2s. Round box


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027663
modified: 2018-04-18 16:18:51.417000
ScientificName: Picea abies
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) H.Karst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: abies
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Wood being portion of fore-mast of H.M.S. Erebus, after collision with H.M.S. Terror off an iceberg in the Antartic Ocean 1842 March 18th 1842  Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027668
modified: 2006-04-19 15:20:45.033000
ScientificName: Picea asperata
scientificNameAuthorship: Mast.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: asperata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Pl.Wils. II 33 Seed of this no. was P.asperata - see letter from Rehder 616.13/chenault Leaf angle 60-90 degrees above 60-100 at sides In cone collection


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027674
modified: 2007-01-08 12:32:25.873000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Surrey, Kew
ScientificName: Picea breweriana
scientificNameAuthorship: S.Watson
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: breweriana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Hort. Kew 1920 N.California. One of the first cones produced in England from the tree near the Padoga (the first introduced into Europe). The tree coned for the first time in 1920.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027676
ScientificName: Picea brachytyla
scientificNameAuthorship: (Franch.) E.Pritz.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: brachytyla
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Approximate 17 years Approx. height 25ft Approx. height of branch from which the specimen came 3ft.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000002769
recordNumber: 3 J
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: Java
ScientificName: Theobroma cacao
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Malvaceae
genus: Theobroma
specificEpithet: cacao
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Coll. Blanchet Jacobina Brazil. The above appears on old label and possibly refers to wood with cat. No 2770.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027693
modified: 2007-01-08 12:33:18.090000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Kent, Sevenoaks, Kemsing
ScientificName: Picea breweriana
scientificNameAuthorship: S.Watson
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: breweriana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From seed brought back from Oregon by F.R.S. Balfour in 1907 Letter - Dr Melville, the cones enclosed are from Brigadier HR Norman, St Clere, Kemsing, Sevenoaks and are taken from a specimen raised from seed brought back from Oregon by FRSBalfour in 1907. This is the first time that the tree has coned though apparently the other specimens grown at Dawyck have not yet done so. Curator 18th Feb. 1949


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027694
modified: 2000-11-15 08:45:58.990000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Saskatchewan, Northern America, Canada, Western Canada, Carlton
ScientificName: Picea glauca
scientificNameAuthorship: (Moench) Voss
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: glauca
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Chewed by the Indians Old label in french --Resins de l'Abies alba et chique par les Mitifs de(?) les Sauvages Carlton, 1858--


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000002770
recordedBy: Blanchet
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Jacobina
ScientificName: Theobroma cacao
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Malvaceae
genus: Theobroma
specificEpithet: cacao
occurrenceRemarks:
The earlier label reads as follows - Theobroma cacao  473  XXXII.28  Java. This may refer to specimen No 2769


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027703
modified: 2010-04-19 12:45:56.877000
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan, Asia-Temperate, Eastern Asia, Yezo
ScientificName: Picea glehnii
scientificNameAuthorship: (F.Schmidt) Mast.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: glehnii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Picea glehnii (is very near to P. ornatales?) 2 darkened white lines on upper ? surface of leaves. Leaves scarsely pointed. 1st year shoot reddish, 2nd year shoot blueish. Is P. glehnii according to Dr Mayr? A. Henry Oct 1904.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027713
modified: 2018-04-10 18:20:02.953000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: British North America
ScientificName: Picea glauca
scientificNameAuthorship: (Moench) Voss
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: glauca
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Made and used by Black-feet Indians. Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027714
modified: 2007-01-08 12:35:44.773000
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan, Asia-Temperate, Eastern Asia
ScientificName: Picea jezoensis var. hondoensis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Mayr) Rehder
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: jezoensis
infraspecificEpithet: hondoensis
taxonRank: Variety
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Carter's specimen of Picea ajanensis is Picea hondoensis according to Dr Mayr, A Henry, Oct. 1904. 5.10.04 JHH. Japan Main Island. The tree cultivated ordered as P. ajanensis, shoots reddish brown, the new leaves ... illegible writing!!!


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027730
modified: 2000-11-14 12:41:30.733000
country: Christmas Island
countryCode: CX
locality: China, Asia-Temperate, West China
ScientificName: Picea meyeri
scientificNameAuthorship: Rehder & E.H.Wilson
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: meyeri
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  ex Type Specimen No. 22672. From the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. To W Dallimore from AB Jackson. Leaves in envelope.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027733
modified: 2008-06-02 11:36:20.587000
country: SU
countryCode: SU
locality: Russia, East Europe
ScientificName: Picea obovata
scientificNameAuthorship: Ledeb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: obovata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  N.E. Europe & N.Asia. Trees of Great Britain and Ireland. Russia, 700 miles east of St. Petersburg 1908. H.C. Baker.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000002774
modified: 2006-02-14 11:56:13.030000
locality: West Africa
ScientificName: Triplochiton scleroxylon
scientificNameAuthorship: K.Schum.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Malvaceae
genus: Triplochiton
specificEpithet: scleroxylon
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Very light flames up well. Cheap 7d - 7.5d per ft. Boards cut off at 22 ft and 2 ft wide


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027779
modified: 2000-11-14 14:01:24.073000
recordedBy: Gordon G
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: California, Northern America, USA, Southwestern USA
ScientificName: Picea sitchensis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Bong.) Carrière
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: sitchensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herb. George Gordon, Presented by Sir JD Hooker Dec 1878.  Gordons Pinetum Ed 2p.  Mr Mensies Spruce.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027781
modified: 2014-07-11 14:15:20.877000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia, Queen Charlotte Islands
ScientificName: Picea sitchensis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Bong.) Carrière
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: sitchensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Halibut line made from roots by the Haida Indians. Newcombe was paid $4.50 for this item in 1904. Geography inferred from cultural group (Haida).


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027792
modified: 2010-04-19 14:06:24.713000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Dorset, Melbury
ScientificName: Picea spinulosa
scientificNameAuthorship: (Griff.) A.Henry
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Picea
specificEpithet: spinulosa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The cones first gathered from a tree of P. morindoides at Melbury the seat of The Earl of Ilchester in West Dorset


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027818
modified: 2003-12-15 11:11:30.700000
recordedBy: Masters Dr MT
country: United States
countryCode: US
occurrenceRemarks: Label source: WH Jackson July 1902
ScientificName: Pinus attenuata
scientificNameAuthorship: Lemmon
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: attenuata
locality:
California, Northern America, USA, Southwestern USA, Devils Backbone, Trinity Summit to Salmon Sunmmit


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027853
recordNumber: 3
modified: 2007-01-08 12:36:50.863000
recordedBy: Engelmann G, Sargent CS
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: USA, Northern America
ScientificName: Pinus balfouriana
scientificNameAuthorship: Balf.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: balfouriana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Tenth Census Of The United States Department of Forestry. Journey to the Pacific Coast, 1880.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027855
modified: 2010-07-15 12:27:04.423000
ScientificName: Pinus banksiana
scientificNameAuthorship: Lamb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: banksiana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Canada and North East United States. F.M.Ellis Americas leading tree seedsman. Domestic Tree Seeds of New Crops Only, Post Office Box 491 Griffin, Georgia


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027863
modified: 2000-11-14 15:47:09.283000
recordedBy: Gordon G
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Asia-Temperate
ScientificName: Pinus bungeana
scientificNameAuthorship: Zucc. ex Endl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: bungeana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herb. George Gordon. Presented  by Sir J.D.Hooker Dec. 1878. Gordons Pinetum Ed. 2.p.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027871
modified: 2003-11-14 15:34:27.767000
country: Belize
countryCode: BZ
locality: Belize, Southern America, Mesoamerica
ScientificName: Pinus caribaea
scientificNameAuthorship: Morelet
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: caribaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No 63 of 15.2.95.  Thus with which this resin is identical has only a limited demand.  Prices range from 8 shillings and 6 pence to 10 shillings per cwt. according to quality.  Invariably well supplied. Donated by Sir A Moloney, Govenor ofBritish Honduras.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027883
modified: 2010-05-12 12:41:47.453000
country: Switzerland
countryCode: CH
locality: Switzerland, Europe, Middle Europe
ScientificName: Pinus cembra
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: cembra
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sold in the Market Place, Berne, at half a franc per bundle of 200. Used to cover the sides of houses as slate is used about Elberfield, protecting against wind and damp.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027899
modified: 2007-01-18 16:02:05.800000
ScientificName: Pinus cembroides
scientificNameAuthorship: Zucc.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: cembroides
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  According to Prof Sargent these seeds are sold in the markets of Tuscon Arizonia. It is the Pinon of the Southern part of that Territory and of North Sonora. Sold in all the markets of N. Mexico and form a considerable article of food among  the poorer classes.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027920
modified: 2007-01-08 12:46:46.477000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: Oregon, Northern America, USA, Northwestern USA
ScientificName: Pinus contorta var. latifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: Engelm.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: contorta
infraspecificEpithet: latifolia
taxonRank: VARIETY
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cascade Mountains and vicinity July 1877. Abundant on summit of pass at 4500 feet but dwarfed  ? on east side down to 33000 ft, and on the sea shore at Yaquina Bay.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027923
modified: 2010-04-22 14:17:33.023000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: California, Northern America, USA, Southwestern USA
ScientificName: Pinus contorta
scientificNameAuthorship: Douglas ex Loudon
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: contorta
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Lieut. AW Whipple's Exped. for a Railway Route, from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, near the 35th parallel of Latitude, in 1853-4. Collected by Dr JM Bigelow, Surgeon and Botanist to the Exped.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027948
modified: 2006-10-25 14:34:16.720000
ScientificName: Pinus densiflora
scientificNameAuthorship: Siebold & Zucc.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: densiflora
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Seeds of a Helianthus have been placed within the scales of the cone by a Japanese for the purpose of deceiving a plant collector. These specimens with the cones wrapped in paper were bought for sale by a Japanese who had placed among the scales of the cones the seeds of Helianthus thus showing one of their modes of cheating. R.C.When.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027952
modified: 2000-11-22 14:31:10.490000
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan, Asia-Temperate, Eastern Asia
ScientificName: Pinus densiflora
scientificNameAuthorship: Siebold & Zucc.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: densiflora
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  F.M.Ellis Americas Leading Tree Seedsman. Domestic Tree Seeds of New Crops Only. Post Office Box 491 Griffin, Georgia.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027956
modified: 2007-01-08 12:47:48.187000
country: Guatemala
countryCode: GT
locality: Guatemala, Southern America, Mesoamerica, Volcande Agua
ScientificName: Pinus donnell-smithii
scientificNameAuthorship: Mast.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: donnell-smithii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Label in latin??? No. 3622 I presume from Dr Shannon's letter, that this is the specimen (cones) that he collected on the summit of Volcan de Agua, and that it is Pinus donnell-smithii.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027970
modified: 2007-01-18 16:20:33.297000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: New Mexico, Northern America, USA, South Central USA, Santa Rita Mts.
ScientificName: Pinus flexilis
scientificNameAuthorship: E.James
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: flexilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Tenth Census of the United States, Department of Forestry, Journey to the Pacific Coast, 1880. Coll. G Engelmann and C.S.Sargent.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027976
modified: 2025-02-21 12:18:33.953000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Punjab, Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent, India
ScientificName: Pinus gerardiana
scientificNameAuthorship: Wall. ex D.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: gerardiana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Used for food. Form B 4077 B Bombay General Catalogue No. 309 Division 11 Substances used as food, Class 12 (b) grocery, drysaltery. Exhibitors Name Punjaub Committee - to illustrate the grocery of Punjab.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027994
modified: 2000-11-23 13:00:36.727000
country: Greece
countryCode: GR
locality: Greece, Europe, Southeastern Europe, Taurus
ScientificName: Pinus halepensis var. brutia
scientificNameAuthorship: (Ten.) A.Henry
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: halepensis
infraspecificEpithet: brutia
taxonRank: Variety
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Bulgar Dagh.  Crescit in collinis inter Meseroing Chan et Tarsus alt. 600-1500 ped. Die 28 Sept, 1853.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000027998
modified: 2007-01-08 12:48:16.460000
country: Algeria
countryCode: DZ
locality: Algeria, Africa, Northern Africa, Djelpa?, Djebel Sevalba
ScientificName: Pinus halepensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: halepensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  S & E Europe and N Africa..  Collected on the higher slopes of the Djebel Sevalba (Saburan Atlas) 4 miles W of Djelpa, Algeria.  Limestone soil, rainfall about 11 ins per annum.  Aug 1926, Tree 20 ft high 1 ft diam.  Cones of Juniper Juniperus communis   bush 6 ft high.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000000280
recordNumber: 4499
modified: 1994-01-24 00:00:00
recordedBy: Schodde R, Craven LA
country: Papua New Guinea
countryCode: PG
eventDate: 1966-02-16 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 16/02/1966
ScientificName: Cananga odorata
scientificNameAuthorship: (Lam.) Hook.f. & Thomson
kingdom: Plantae
family: Annonaceae
genus: Cananga
specificEpithet: odorata
locality:
New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Gulf District, E.Purari river delta channel, c.15 miles inland from coast, Malesia, Asia Tropical

occurrenceRemarks:
Entry book - Alluvial-freshwater tidal forest ecotone. Tree ca.35m high, unbuttressed; bark smooth finely pustular pale grey, thick, blaze pale brown; wood dark cream; leaves dull glossy dark green above, slightly paler and duller below; tepals pale green ripening yellow; fruit dark glossy green. Altitude ca.sea-level


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000002802
modified: 2006-11-10 13:10:26.490000
country: Sri Lanka
countryCode: LK
locality: Sri Lanka
ScientificName: Berrya cordifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: (Willd.) Burret
kingdom: Plantae
family: Malvaceae
genus: Berrya
specificEpithet: cordifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A large tree, perhaps the most valuble timber tree in Ceylon. The wood is tough and durable.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028066
modified: 2000-11-23 14:44:42.073000
country: Mexico
countryCode: MX
locality: Mexico, Northern America
ScientificName: Pinus lawsonii
scientificNameAuthorship: Roezl ex Gordon
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: lawsonii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Ozuapau Michoacan Nov. 1 1905. Illegible name Jan. 1 1908. Chernaraea Marelos Dec. 6. 1907.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000000281
recordNumber: 109
modified: 1994-01-18 00:00:00
recordedBy: Craven LA, Schodde R
country: Papua New Guinea
countryCode: PG
eventDate: 1964-07-27 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 27/07/1964
ScientificName: Cananga odorata
scientificNameAuthorship: (Lam.) Hook.f. & Thomson
kingdom: Plantae
family: Annonaceae
genus: Cananga
specificEpithet: odorata
locality:
Noth Solomons, Solomon Is, Bougainville, c.10 miles north of Buin, Nr Koniguru No 1, Southwestern Pacific, Pacific

occurrenceRemarks:
Entry book - Tall secondary rainforest. Tree 22m tall; flowers pale yellow green, fruit dull dark green; bark smooth grey brown outside, pale brown inside; wood creamy white.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028130
recordNumber: 706
modified: 2000-11-24 17:01:02.700000
recordedBy: Gordon G, pinetum Ed. 2p
country: United States
countryCode: US
eventDate: 1852-10-07 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 07/10/1852
ScientificName: Pinus monticola
scientificNameAuthorship: Douglas ex D.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: monticola
locality:
California, Northern America, USA, Southwestern USA, North California, Trimly Mts., Volcanic Rocky Summits


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000002814
modified: 2006-06-12 16:07:26.387000
country: Solomon Islands
countryCode: SB
locality: Solomon Islands, Bougainville
identifiedBy: JS Womensley
ScientificName: Colona scabra
scientificNameAuthorship: (Sm.) Burret
kingdom: Plantae
family: Malvaceae
genus: Colona
specificEpithet: scabra
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Littoral tree, 100 - 150 ft. Flowers small, yellow, mottled dark red in centre. Leaves rough underside.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028158
modified: 2007-01-08 12:49:24.433000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Hertford, Bayfordbury
ScientificName: Pinus muricata
scientificNameAuthorship: D.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: muricata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Showing cones probably 25 to 30 years of age retained by the branch, which is a peculiarity of this species.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028171
modified: 2017-01-16 15:27:42.387000
country: France
countryCode: FR
locality: France, Europe, Southwestern Europe, Paris
ScientificName: Pinus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Purchased in Paris Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028179
country: Türkiye
countryCode: TR
locality: Taurus, Bulgar Dagh
ScientificName: Pinus nigra var. caramanica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Loudon) Rehder
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: nigra
infraspecificEpithet: caramanica
taxonRank: Variety
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Th.Kotschy. Iter Cilicicum in Tauri alpes ' Bulgar Dagh' Regionem montanam a pago Gullek versus alpes sylvis obtegit alt. 4800-6000 Ped. Mense Aug 1853 Kermes Tscham Turcoum.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028180
modified: 2000-12-08 10:04:08.053000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Surrey, Chiswick
ScientificName: Pinus nigra var. maritima
scientificNameAuthorship: (Aiton) Melville
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: nigra
infraspecificEpithet: maritima
taxonRank: VARIETY
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From a tree growing at Chiswick and mentioned in Loudon's Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum IV 2207


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028236
modified: 2007-01-08 14:37:25.307000
recordedBy: Wyatt O
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Surrey, Leonardslee
ScientificName: Pinus parviflora
scientificNameAuthorship: Siebold & Zucc.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: parviflora
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Rehder considers var. pentaphylla Henry. to be the wild form, the smaller cones and different habit of the cult. P parviflora being due to grafting.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028243
modified: 2001-01-05 15:56:52.020000
country: YU
countryCode: YU
locality: Yugoslavia, Europe, Southeastern Europe, Macedonia, Mount Peristeri
ScientificName: Pinus peuce
scientificNameAuthorship: Griseb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: peuce
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Altitude 5000 to 6000 ft. The foliage and cone of this pine has every appearance of P.excelsa of India. The leaves themselves would seem to be nearer the north American P.strobus. Recieved under the name of P.peuce.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028247
ScientificName: Pinus pinaster
scientificNameAuthorship: Aiton
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: pinaster
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Prepared by J Davidson Composed of Seeds, tegmen, Cotyledon, wing, testa and albumen.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028268
modified: 2001-01-05 16:13:24.083000
recordedBy: Gordon G, Pinetum
country: Mexico
countryCode: MX
locality: Mexico, Northern America
eventDate: 1858-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1858
ScientificName: Pinus pinceana
scientificNameAuthorship: Gordon & Glend.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: pinceana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mr Pinces Mexican Pine.  A very handsome tree growing sixty ft high with long weeping branches like those of the weeping willow and easily distinguished from all other Mexican Pines on that account.  It was first discovered in 1844 by M Gheisbreght near the Hacienda del Potrees, in the Ravine of Mestitlan on the route from Mexico to Tampiso and is No 34 of M Gheisbreghts specimens.  It was also found by Mr Chas Ghrenbery to who I am in debt for my specimens and account of the tree, upon amountain along the road to the city of Mexico at a place called Cuernavaca, at an elevation of 8000 to 9000 ft. It has been named in compliment to Mr Pince of Exeter.  The Pinetum, Gordon, 1858, p.205.  JHH Jan 11th 1905.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028270
recordedBy: Gordon G
ScientificName: Pinus pinaster var. hamiltonii
scientificNameAuthorship: (Ten.) Lindl. & Gordon
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: pinaster
infraspecificEpithet: hamiltonii
taxonRank: Variety
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Earthenware pot containing cone for receiving the turpentine as it flows from the wounded trunk.  Collector CGC Percival,  Bordeaux.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028273
modified: 2005-07-04 15:51:46.160000
locality: Seville, Coto del Rey
ScientificName: Pinus picea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: picea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Prolongation of branch through cone.  Morphological notes, Annals of Botany vol XVII Sept.1903, where this specimen is figured.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028274
modified: 2010-04-22 13:01:47.100000
country: Portugal
countryCode: PT
locality: Portugal, Europe, Southwestern Europe
ScientificName: Pinus pinea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: pinea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Showing the way in which the peasants bring them to market at Lisbon, strung upon threads like beads and suspended upon a girdle round the waist.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028289
modified: 2003-12-10 12:21:03.677000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: Washington, Northenr America, Northwestern USA, Puget Sound, Nisqually Plains
ScientificName: Pinus ponderosa
scientificNameAuthorship: Douglas ex C.Lawson
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: ponderosa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Collected by Suckley in Autumn 1856, there are no seeds, as this was not for this tree a bearing year.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028290
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: W North America
ScientificName: Pinus ponderosa
scientificNameAuthorship: Douglas ex C.Lawson
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: ponderosa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Americas Leading Tree Seedsman.  Domestic tree seeds of new crops only.  PO Box 401.  Griffin, Georgia.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028298
modified: 2003-12-15 08:42:52.040000
country: Mexico
countryCode: MX
occurrenceRemarks: Label source: Plantae Mexicanae, 1887. September.
ScientificName: Pinus ponderosa
scientificNameAuthorship: Douglas ex C.Lawson
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: ponderosa
locality:
Chihuahua, Northern America, North and Central Mexico, Mexico Northeast, Grassy plains of Sierra Madre


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000000283
modified: 1994-01-24 00:00:00
country: Sri Lanka
countryCode: LK
locality: Sri Lanka, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Cyathocalyx zeylanicus
scientificNameAuthorship: Champ. ex Hook.f. & Thomson
kingdom: Plantae
family: Annonaceae
genus: Cyathocalyx
specificEpithet: zeylanicus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The well known light, laquered Kandyan sticks are said to be made from the wood of this tree.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028304
modified: 2001-01-05 16:46:25.863000
recordedBy: Gordon G Collection
country: Mexico
countryCode: MX
locality: Mexico, Northern America
ScientificName: Pinus pseudostrobus var. tenuifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: Shaw
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: pseudostrobus
infraspecificEpithet: tenuifolia
taxonRank: VARIETY
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herb. George Gordon Presented by Sir J.D.Hooker Dec., 1878. Gordons Pinetum Ed.2.p. (Hartweg)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028305
modified: 2007-01-08 14:39:08.293000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: California, Northern America, USA, Southwestern USA
ScientificName: Pinus ponderosa var. arizonica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Engelm.) Shaw
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: ponderosa
infraspecificEpithet: arizonica
taxonRank: VARIETY
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sta. Catalina 8000-10,000 ft.Mt Graham, Sta. Catalina, Sta. Rita and Chissioalina ? Mts. Arizona. Pacific Coast Flora.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028314
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan, Nikko
ScientificName: Pinus pumila
scientificNameAuthorship: (Pall.) Regel
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: pumila
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Form with senate leaves. A.B.J 12.1.09. 'Hai Matsu' Creeping Pine of Japan. Gathered in June by Capt. L Clinton-Baker R.N. HMS King Alford, grows at 8000 ft behind Nikko and does not grow more than 2 ft above the groung and creeps along and roots itself. Recieved from H Clinton Baker, Bayfordbury.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028316
country: Mexico
countryCode: MX
locality: Mexico
ScientificName: Pinus pseudostrobus
scientificNameAuthorship: Lindl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: pseudostrobus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  On back of label: P.'Cancimbo' Cones leaves wood from tree at Zirahuen. Photo No. 5 No.II.???


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028337
modified: 2007-01-08 14:39:25.193000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand South Island, Australasia, New Zealand, Canterbury
ScientificName: Pinus radiata
scientificNameAuthorship: D.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: radiata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This cone like the foliage and friut ?? is of the same tree and about 50 years planted. W.H. No. 1. Cone representing the original Douglas Remarkable Pine.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028338
modified: 2007-01-08 14:39:37.140000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand South Island, Australasia, New Zealand, Canterbury
ScientificName: Pinus radiata
scientificNameAuthorship: D.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: radiata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This cone and seed is constant: the only tree I know of in Canterbury, New Zealand. W.H. No. 2.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028340
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: East North America
ScientificName: Pinus resinosa
scientificNameAuthorship: Aiton
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: resinosa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Americas Leading tree seedsman, domestic tree seeds of new crops only, Griffin  Georgia.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028352
modified: 2007-01-08 14:41:56.163000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Surrey, Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens
ScientificName: Pinus rigida
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: rigida
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Phytoptus mois. Nal. (or endis Nal.)  Allied to Balck Currant Mite, arrest in development of tree, no formation of next branch.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028358
modified: 2001-01-24 09:40:25.930000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh, Asia-Tropcial, Indian Subcontient, India, N W Himalaya, Jaunsar
ScientificName: Pinus roxburghii
scientificNameAuthorship: Sarg.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: roxburghii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  British India, prepared in the Forest Factory at Dehra Dun from the resin of Pinus longifolia, Various uses. Ref. no. 607 DD Cat. p12. Exhibitor Director Imperial Forest School.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028369
modified: 2006-06-29 17:45:56.060000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, NW Province
ScientificName: Pinus roxburghii
scientificNameAuthorship: Sarg.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: roxburghii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Presented by the Reporter on Ec. Products to the Govt. of India. Conservator of Forests, School Circle.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028372
modified: 2010-05-27 13:52:43.137000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent
ScientificName: Pinaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Spreng. ex F.Rudolphi
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From Pinus roxburghii Sarg. and Pinus wallichiana A.B. Jacks. See Handbooks of Commercial Products Imp. Inst. Series, No 7 pp 11 & 13. Gouge Chisel used for driving into the trunk of the tree just at the bottom of the incision made by the adze, thus making a curved cut, into which a piece of zinc is inserted to conduct the flowing turps into the vessel placed below to receive it.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028374
modified: 2007-09-06 12:06:05.717000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Uttar Pradesh, Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent, India, Dehra Dun
ScientificName: Pinus roxburghii
scientificNameAuthorship: Sarg.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: roxburghii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  It is cut into this shape for storing by the natives of the Jaunsar Hills, who cut it into chips in the winter and use it for lighting their houses and for torches in travelling.  Imperial Forest School.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028384
modified: 2010-04-29 10:16:20.600000
country: Norway
countryCode: NO
locality: Norway, Europe, Northern Europe, Stravanger
ScientificName: Pinus sylvestris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: sylvestris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Wooden basket employed for conveying various articles from the country to the towns provisions of travellers. Price 1 shilling 4 pence.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028387
modified: 2010-04-21 12:00:19.637000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Dumfriesshire, Eaglesfield
ScientificName: Pinus sylvestris var. uncinata
scientificNameAuthorship: (Ramond ex DC.) Loudon
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: sylvestris
infraspecificEpithet: uncinata
taxonRank: Variety
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See Londons Arboretum Brit. 4 p.2157. Recd. for naming from Major B Johnson-Ferguson, Fairyknowe, Eaglesfield, Dumfriesshire.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028391
modified: 2010-06-04 11:36:57.030000
ScientificName: Pinaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Spreng. ex F.Rudolphi
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sticks of Deal used for making matches between 1830 and 1840. Strips of wood of the thickness required to make a match stick, were cut into a number of square sticks by means of a plane with a number of cutting knives fixed in it set to cut the sticks all of the required thickness. When cut, the sticks were cut into lengths suitable for making two matches as in this sample. Each end was then dipped into the striking mixture, and when that had dried, the sticks were cut in half to make two matches. N.E. Brown.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028399
modified: 2001-01-10 15:57:31.113000
country: Ireland
countryCode: IE
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, Ireland
ScientificName: Pinus sylvestris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: sylvestris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Saturated with resin, found in the bogs of Ireland, strips wer at one time used in the cabins of peasants as candles.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028413
modified: 2000-11-01 11:10:16.393000
country: Sweden
countryCode: SE
locality: Sweden, Europe, Northern Europe
ScientificName: Pinaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Spreng. ex F.Rudolphi
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Bast, used for fishing gear, being very durable under water. Price 1 shilling per 100 ft. Exhibitor MT Magnusson


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028418
modified: 2005-04-29 15:32:26.313000
country: Norway
countryCode: NO
locality: Norway, Europe, Northern Europe
ScientificName: Pinaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Spreng. ex F.Rudolphi
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  These are not unusual in some parts of the country.  This panel was carved by a countryman living near Sandeid, about 40 miles north of Stavanger. (ex case 17)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028429
country: Ireland
countryCode: IE
locality: Ireland, Portadown
ScientificName: Pinus sylvestris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: sylvestris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From a peat bog in Ireland Dr Boats ' Irelands Natural History' 1652.  'Cyleele Hebernica'. Moore and Moore Flora Hebernica MacKay p.259.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028454
modified: 2001-01-10 16:45:01.417000
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan, Asia-Temperate, Eastern Asia, Hakodate
ScientificName: Pinus thunbergii
scientificNameAuthorship: Parl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: thunbergii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Ex herb. horti bot. Petroplitani. Iter secundum Received Nov. 1867 Japonia, Hakodate 1861


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028458
ScientificName: Pinus thunbergii
scientificNameAuthorship: Parl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: thunbergii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Abnormal shoot in which some of the foliage leaves are transformed into seminiferous scales.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028464
modified: 2001-01-10 16:49:22.833000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Surrey, Kew
ScientificName: Pinus torreyana
scientificNameAuthorship: Parry ex Carrière
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: torreyana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  California, Santa Barbara. From Dr Franceschi, southern  california Arbm. Soc. Santa Barbara.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028478
modified: 2001-01-11 14:14:27.703000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: Northeastern United States, Northern America, USA
ScientificName: Pinus virginiana
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: virginiana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Pinus distorta, Sabine in Trans. of Hort. Soc. A low small scrambly pine exclusively confined to the confluence of the colombia northwards.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028484
modified: 2003-12-16 09:46:10.603000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britian, Europe, Northern Europe, England, Hewell Grange
ScientificName: Pinus wallichiana
scientificNameAuthorship: A.B.Jacks.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: wallichiana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Grown at Hewell Grange 20.7.09.; Cambridge Botanic Gardens Jan.1909. Treess of Great Britain and Ireland Temperate Himalaya


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028496
modified: 2017-01-16 16:00:18.987000
country: Afghanistan
countryCode: AF
locality: Afghanistan, Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Kuram Valley
ScientificName: Pinus wallichiana
scientificNameAuthorship: A.B.Jacks.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pinus
specificEpithet: wallichiana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Kur and Afghanistan 1880 Photographed and catalogued in November 2016 as part of the Musical Instrument Interface for Museums and Collections (MINIM-UK) project, Royal College of Music, www.minim-uk.org


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028504
modified: 2008-12-23 12:02:26.510000
country: France
countryCode: FR
locality: France
ScientificName: Pinaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Spreng. ex F.Rudolphi
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Invention de M. Frecleric de Girad de Lourmarin, Papier de Bois, Brever puisa Paris in 1806.  22 bain decolorant et debagregeaut mi-pale.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028506
modified: 2008-12-23 12:02:02.917000
country: France
countryCode: FR
locality: France, Europe, Southwestern Europe
ScientificName: Pinaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Spreng. ex F.Rudolphi
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Invente par M. Frederic de Girard (de Lourmarin) Brevete in 1806. pate ? a, 28 centimes le kilog.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028509
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Clay flower pots for dwarfed pines and other trees.  An interesting addition to the Museum collections forming part of the present donation, consists of a very small glazed earthen pots for holding artificially dwarfed pines etc.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028525
modified: 2010-02-23 12:09:20.163000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: B.C.Canada, Monte Creek
ScientificName: Pseudotsuga menziesii
scientificNameAuthorship: (Mirb.) Franco
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pseudotsuga
specificEpithet: menziesii
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Director - Twigs of Douglas fir with deposits of sugar, sent by Miss Bostock, Canada. The deposits appear to be sugar, but I should not be able to find out whether melezitose is present. In the Experiment Station Record (USA Dept. Agric.), vol.39, p.802, there is an abstract of a paper by Hudson and Sherwood on 'The occurrance of melezitose in a manna from the Douglas Fir'. The presence of the manna may be due to an insect. H1875-29  53/1929  18.9.29. Ant found in specimen 16.02.1988. (Included with the specimen)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028535
modified: 2003-02-24 11:50:52.787000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia, Fort Rupert
ScientificName: Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pseudotsuga
specificEpithet: menziesii
infraspecificEpithet: menziesii
taxonRank: VARIETY
occurrenceRemarks:
The tongs made of Douglas fir wood are called 'Kulais' in Kwakwala. Tongs are employed in drying fish by the Kwakwaka'waka people. Label source:  Kwakiutl. Newcombe was paid $1.00 for this item in 1900.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028538
modified: 2007-01-08 14:57:28.053000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: California, Northern America, USA, Southwestern USA, Placerville, Foothills Sierra
ScientificName: Pseudotsuga vancouverensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Flous
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Pseudotsuga
specificEpithet: vancouverensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Box 1.  Bracts rather long.  Short on another red Douglas Fir just across the street.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028572
modified: 2003-02-24 11:51:00.487000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia, Hope Island, Xumtaspi
ScientificName: Tsuga heterophylla
scientificNameAuthorship: (Raf.) Sarg.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Tsuga
specificEpithet: heterophylla
occurrenceRemarks:
The bread made from the cambium layer of the Western hemlock is known as 'Lan-kh' in Kwakwala. Newcombe was paid $1.00 for this item in 1900.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028573
modified: 2003-12-30 12:02:40.343000
recordedBy: Sargent Prof CS, Engelmann G
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: California, Northern America, USA, Southwestern USA, Mountains of California
eventDate: 1881-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1881
ScientificName: Tsuga heterophylla
scientificNameAuthorship: (Raf.) Sarg.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Tsuga
specificEpithet: heterophylla
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Silver Peak, nr Yale. B.C. Tenth census of the US, Dept. of Forestry. Journey to the Pacific Coast 1880


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028574
modified: 2003-11-05 09:45:15.293000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia, Queen Charlotte Islands
ScientificName: Tsuga heterophylla
scientificNameAuthorship: (Raf.) Sarg.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Tsuga
specificEpithet: heterophylla
occurrenceRemarks:
Made from the heart of a knot of wood. Label source:  Haida Indians. Newcombe was paid $0.50 for this item in 1904. Geography inferred from cultural group (Haida).


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028575
modified: 2019-07-18 11:59:46.857000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia
ScientificName: Tsuga heterophylla
scientificNameAuthorship: (Raf.) Sarg.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Pinaceae
genus: Tsuga
specificEpithet: heterophylla
occurrenceRemarks:
Made from the heart of a knot of wood. Label source:  Salish Indians. Newcombe was paid $0.75 for this item in 1904. Geography inferred from cultural group (Salish).  Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC) Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028593
modified: 2019-06-18 12:24:57.900000
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan
ScientificName: Cryptomeria japonica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Thunb. ex L.f.) D.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Cryptomeria
specificEpithet: japonica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Toothpicks in case of wood,  sold in London at a halfpenny each 1897.  Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC) Exhibited in Plants+People exhibition in Museum No.1, May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028601
ScientificName: Cryptomeria japonica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Thunb. ex L.f.) D.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Cryptomeria
specificEpithet: japonica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Thin shavings of a coniferous wood imported into Europe and used for plaiting into ladies hats. Wohlen, Switzerland


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028602
modified: 2007-06-28 10:28:45.690000
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan
ScientificName: Cryptomeria japonica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Thunb. ex L.f.) D.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Cryptomeria
specificEpithet: japonica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Inkstand of petrified wood.  A few miles on is Sendain, noteworthy for the manufacture of articles more ornamental than useful, from fossil wood found in a hill close by. The native name is jindaisugi, the wood in all probability being Cryptomeria.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028616
modified: 2007-08-16 12:53:55.320000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China
ScientificName: Cunninghamia sinensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Rich.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Cunninghamia
specificEpithet: sinensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Box is a model of a coffin.  It is made entirely of San-muk, the usual material from which ordinary coffins are made.  It is used also for tea chests. It grows principally in the Province of Fuk-hien and that part of the prov. of An-huei South of the Yang-tsze.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028617
modified: 2006-11-06 16:28:31.983000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China
ScientificName: Taxodium lineatum
scientificNameAuthorship: (Poir.) Druce
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Taxodium
specificEpithet: lineatum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mr Dallimore, you probably have seeds of this already but in case you have not, am sending a few.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028628
modified: 2006-10-30 14:46:29.673000
ScientificName: Sequoia sempervirens
scientificNameAuthorship: (D.Don) Endl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Sequoia
specificEpithet: sempervirens
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Labels made of Redwood. Samples of wood were sent to the Director about the eend of 1926. These were made into labels in the Museums Dept. the labels corresponding in size to those made of pine used in the gardens. The samples other than those in this exhibit were handed to the Curator on Jan. 12th 1927


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028638
modified: 2025-04-29 14:04:21.020000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: Sierre Nevada
ScientificName: Sequoiadendron giganteum
scientificNameAuthorship: (Lindl.) J.Buchholz
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Sequoiadendron
specificEpithet: giganteum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Believed to have been used for ancient Indian drawings. Letter 58, 1922 : xiv p.231, 7th April 1922


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028715
modified: 2010-03-16 15:48:45.420000
recordedBy: Hands Frank H
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: Arizonia, Northern America, USA, Southwestern USA, Chiricahua Mountains
eventDate: 1927-02-24 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 24/02/1927
ScientificName: Cupressus arizonica
scientificNameAuthorship: Greene
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Cupressus
specificEpithet: arizonica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Collected in the Chiricahua Mts. Arizonia on Feb. 24th 1927 by Frank H Hands. Das Cabezas, Arizonia and sent to AB Jackson by Mr Geo B. Sudworth, Dendrologist, Forest Service. U.S. Dept. of Agric. Recd. at Kew 11.V.27.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028718
modified: 2000-11-10 12:05:03.520000
country: Mauritius
countryCode: MU
locality: Mauritius, Africa, Western Indian Ocean
ScientificName: Cupressus funebris
scientificNameAuthorship: Endl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Cupressus
specificEpithet: funebris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mauritius plants presented by the Governor from the Franco-British Exhib. 1908. (herbarium) China


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028742
modified: 2018-07-24 11:01:46.810000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia, West Coast of Vancouver Island, Clayoquot Sound
eventDate: 1898-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1898
ScientificName: Chamaecyparis nootkatensis
scientificNameAuthorship: (D.Don) Spach
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Chamaecyparis
specificEpithet: nootkatensis
occurrenceRemarks:
From entry book: 'An Indian blanket or robe (Kotsick of Robert Brown) made of inner fibres of Yellow Cedar, Thuja excelsa according to the natives = Pinus monticola of Brown. Trimmed with Mink fur, Clayoquot, West Coast of Vancouver Island, 1898.' Label source:  Made of fibrous bark.  Accompanied by conservation display showing materials used.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028743
modified: 2000-11-10 14:13:18.023000
country: Switzerland
countryCode: CH
locality: Switzerland, Europe, Middle Europe, Morcote
ScientificName: Cupressus sempervirens
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Cupressus
specificEpithet: sempervirens
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Rev AG Green, 10 Edward Rd, St. Leonards. Label enclosed says: Temp. House 1963.  Loose seeds in box.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028761
modified: 2011-02-01 10:25:52.397000
ScientificName: Cupressus sempervirens
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Cupressus
specificEpithet: sempervirens
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Box made of a portion of a coffer found in the Tower of London apparently of the wood of Cupressus, supposed to be 200 years old.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028773
modified: 2006-12-11 16:27:35.013000
country: Spain
countryCode: ES
locality: Canary Islands, Africa, Macaronesia, Teneriffe
ScientificName: Juniperus cedrus
scientificNameAuthorship: Webb & Berthel.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Juniperus
specificEpithet: cedrus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Palma form cultivated in Tenerife 10 large galbules weighing 13 grams. Sample of Juniperus seed. Sent by Dr Perez  (Particulars inside each sample). Part kept for Herbarium


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028780
modified: 2006-12-11 16:29:11.300000
country: Cyprus
countryCode: CY
locality: Cyprus, Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Troodos Forest, Almyrolivadhon
ScientificName: Juniperus foetidissima
scientificNameAuthorship: Willd.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Juniperus
specificEpithet: foetidissima
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  At the request of Dr R Melville I forward fertile seed of Juniperus foetidissima from Troodos Forest for raising plants at Kew (from Waterer)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028789
modified: 2006-04-20 15:21:28.360000
ScientificName: Juniperus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Juniperus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  August 1913. Used for plugging pots at Kew. Article enclosed from Oct. 1914, 'The Future Director of Ag. for San Thome in London':  Whilst going round the houses at Kew we noticed that moist brown wood shavings were constantly to be seen around the pots.  Asking our guide, Mr Taylor, whether these were not cedar, he told us they were and added that they got their supplies from Messrs. Pears, the soap makers, who bought it from pencil makers and extracted the scent from it previous to passing it on to Kew.  It is worth while for a firm like Pears to extract scent from cedar waste, surely many of our readers who go in for cedar lumbering should also find it profitable to do the same with the tons of chips they accumulate in a year.  The ideais, at any rate, worth considering.  This reminds us that some of our contemporaries are discussing the report that an American firm of lead pencil manufacturers is seeking a concession for the establishment of a factory in the State of Travancore, whereit is believed that plumbago and the cedar wood are to be found.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028800
modified: 2005-07-11 17:05:19.570000
locality: Europe
ScientificName: Juniperus phoenicea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Juniperus
specificEpithet: phoenicea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Imported from Europe as Arbor Vitae Potter & Clarke Ltd. Drug merchants and manufacturing chemists. London. Letter 14, 1924.XV.p161 - Sample 'B' sent from continent as Arbor Vitae. It is suggested that sample 'B' may be Juniperus phoenicea. The anatomical characters examined, however, do not appear to exclude the possibility that the sample might be Cupressus sempervirens. L.A.B. 21.1.24.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028801
modified: 2006-12-11 16:30:30.973000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: Massachussetts, Northern America, USA, Northeastern USA
ScientificName: Juniperus virginiana
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Juniperus
specificEpithet: virginiana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Has been in use as a railway sleeper in Massachussetts for 42 years. Red Cedar, one of the most durable woods equalling Robinia in its powers of lasting when exposed to the air or buried in the ground. The enclosed piece has been in constant use as a railway sleeper in Massachussetts from Nov. 1834 to April 1876.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028807
ScientificName: Juniperus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Juniperus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A seal of Juniper wood used at ?Leh? such a seal is carried by every one even the poorest. The better classes have ?ones made of? steel.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028814
modified: 2017-01-16 15:28:10.270000
ScientificName: Cupressaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Gray
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Box 1 - Black lead or graphite in its natural state. Paste of finely ground graphite for moulding to fit into the cedar. Two cedar slabs cut wide enough to make pencils. Grooved slabs showing how lead is fitted in. Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028815
modified: 2017-01-16 15:28:24.230000
ScientificName: Cupressaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Gray
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Box 2 - Slabs glued together with lead inside. Semi-circles cut on one side of glued slab.  Six pencils just before separation.  Finely glass papered pencil.  A finished pencil. Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028820
modified: 2009-02-10 13:12:03.227000
ScientificName: Juniperus virginiana
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Juniperus
specificEpithet: virginiana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Western Juniper. Centuries Old, Yet New Today:  This piece is handmade from the oldest wood in the world.  Some of the trees used were seedlings at the beginning of the Christian era.  Manufactured by Western Juniper Novelty Co, 343 E. Clay, Bend, Oregon.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028844
modified: 2003-02-24 11:51:39.563000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia, Queen Charlotte Islands
ScientificName: Thuja plicata
scientificNameAuthorship: Donn ex D.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Thuja
specificEpithet: plicata
occurrenceRemarks:
Cordage made by the Haida people. Newcombe was paid $0.10 for this item in 1904. Geography inferred from cultural group (Haida).


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028849
modified: 2003-02-24 11:51:46.220000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia
ScientificName: Thuja plicata
scientificNameAuthorship: Donn ex D.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Thuja
specificEpithet: plicata
occurrenceRemarks:
Cordage made by the Salish people. Newcombe was paid $0.50 for this item in 1904. Geography inferred from cultural group (Salish).


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028857
modified: 2003-02-24 11:52:11.983000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: United States, Alaska
ScientificName: Thuja plicata
scientificNameAuthorship: Donn ex D.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Thuja
specificEpithet: plicata
occurrenceRemarks:
Used by the Haida people for roofing materials and temporary shelter. Newcombe was paid $1.00 for this item in 1904.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028858
modified: 2003-11-05 09:47:21.207000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver Island
ScientificName: Thuja plicata
scientificNameAuthorship: Donn ex D.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Thuja
specificEpithet: plicata
occurrenceRemarks:
Made by the Nuu-Chah-Nulth (Nootka) people of Vancouver Island. Newcombe was paid $0.50 for this item in 1904.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028859
modified: 2003-02-24 11:52:25.723000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia, Hope Island, Xumtaspi
ScientificName: Thuja plicata
scientificNameAuthorship: Donn ex D.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Thuja
specificEpithet: plicata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Prepared by chopping with a bone implement. In 2 stages of preparation. Xumtaspi, British Columbia. Kwakiutl Tribe.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028861
modified: 2016-12-12 16:55:14.870000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia, West Coast of Vancouver Island
eventDate: 1898-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1898
ScientificName: Thuja plicata
scientificNameAuthorship: Donn ex D.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Thuja
specificEpithet: plicata
occurrenceRemarks:
Entry book reads: 'Rain cloak made of inner layers of bark of Thuja gigantea, Nootka, West Coast of Vancouver Island, 1898.' Newcombe was paid $7.50 for this item in 1899.  Separate small box contains cloak fragments, microscope slides & diagram showing use.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028870
modified: 2000-11-13 14:37:43.247000
country: Zimbabwe
countryCode: ZW
locality: Zimbabwe, Africa, South Tropical Africa, Melsetter Mountains
ScientificName: Widdringtonia whytei
scientificNameAuthorship: Rendle
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Widdringtonia
specificEpithet: whytei
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Probably not distinct from W. mahoni, Masters.  26.4.06. See later specimens from B Museum JHH. Important to keep?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028924
modified: 2016-12-15 13:39:48.107000
country: Germany
countryCode: DE
locality: Munich
ScientificName: Taxus baccata
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Taxaceae
genus: Taxus
specificEpithet: baccata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Spindle of W Indian Cedar and handle of apple  Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028929
modified: 1994-03-07 00:00:00
ScientificName: Taxodium distichum
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Rich.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cupressaceae
genus: Taxodium
specificEpithet: distichum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Used for ventilators at the Brighton Railway works (see letter 417 1918 xii, p.154 LB & SC Railway.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028951
modified: 2010-04-15 16:30:08.553000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China
ScientificName: Ginkgo biloba
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Ginkgoaceae
genus: Ginkgo
specificEpithet: biloba
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Bought in Gerrard Street, London. Packed by China National Cereals, oils and food stuffs. Cost 55 British pence Ideal appetizer for fried or stewed dishes or soups. Nourishing ingredient served with porridge or sweet refreshments.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028952
modified: 2010-04-15 16:30:22.450000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China
ScientificName: Ginkgo biloba
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Ginkgoaceae
genus: Ginkgo
specificEpithet: biloba
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Bought in Gerrard street, London. Packed by China National cereals, oils and foodstuffs. Ideal appetizer for fried or stewed dishes or soups. Nourishing ingredient served with porridge or sweet refreshments.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028977
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Madras
ScientificName: Cycas circinalis
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cycadaceae
genus: Cycas
specificEpithet: circinalis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Snuff boxes made from seeds, used by the Khonds of Gumsur and Kunedi. Illegible label. 28/3/84.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000002898
modified: 2006-12-05 15:57:50.147000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada
eventDate: 1862-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1862
ScientificName: Tilia americana
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Malvaceae
genus: Tilia
specificEpithet: americana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Common forest tree throughout Canada, of an average height 110 ft, height to first limbs 65 ft, and diameter 24 to 30 inches often larger. White, soft close grained and not liable to warp or split, much used in cabinet work, furniture and musical instruments, pianofortes, as cutting boards for curriers, shoe-makers, as it does not cross the knife in the direction of the grain; it turns cleanly and is much used in manufacturing bowls, pails, shovels etc. At port of lakes, #37 sterling per 1,000 cu ft, freight to Quebec #7. Spec. gravity 0.48, weight of cu ft 26 lbs. Of the same genus as lime or linden in England.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028985
recordedBy: Grey Gov. Dr M
ScientificName: Cycas
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cycadaceae
genus: Cycas
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herbarium Of Northern Territory Alice Springs, Australia. This cone corresponds with specimen at MEL numbered 68058 from Papua and New Guinea. The specific epithet is an unpublished mss. of F. Muell. Signed illegilby 16. ii. 1977.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000028990
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Australia
ScientificName: Cycas papuana
scientificNameAuthorship: F.Muell.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cycadaceae
genus: Cycas
specificEpithet: papuana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Part of TYPE collection. Herbarium Of Northern Territory Alice Springs, Australia. Probably part of type collection Cycas papuana F.Muell (1986). Descrit. Notes on Papuan Pl. No IV : 71-71. Type in Mel - Fly River No. 68056. Signed illegibly 16.ii.1977.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000000029
recordNumber: 4060
modified: 2010-07-02 10:54:00.557000
recordedBy: Schodde R, Craven LA
country: Papua New Guinea
countryCode: PG
locality: North Solomons, Bougainville, Aku Village, Solomon Is, Southwestern Pacific, Pacific
eventDate: 1964-09-16 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 16/09/1964
ScientificName: Dillenia ingens
scientificNameAuthorship: B.L.Burtt
kingdom: Plantae
family: Dilleniaceae
genus: Dillenia
specificEpithet: ingens
occurrenceRemarks:
Entry-book source:  Habitat, disturbed swamp rainforest. Spreading tree c.20m high, DBH of trunk c.40cm; bark rippled and furrowed mid grey brown, blaze pale chestnut; sapwood brown cream, heartwood becoming brown red; leaves rather dull dark-green above with paler nerves, pale and dull-green below; stipules dull bright mid green; flowers dull pale cherry red.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029000
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Australia
ScientificName: Cycas normanbyana
scientificNameAuthorship: F.Muell.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cycadaceae
genus: Cycas
specificEpithet: normanbyana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Part of Type collection. Herbarium of Northern Territory, Alice Springs, Australia. Signed illegibly 16.ii.1977.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029020
modified: 2005-05-03 17:20:29.150000
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: Aru Islands
ScientificName: Cycas rumphii
scientificNameAuthorship: Miq.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cycadaceae
genus: Cycas
specificEpithet: rumphii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Half a male cone and two fruits (?) from a cycad, amongst the dried plants in papers.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029021
modified: 2019-07-18 11:27:51.593000
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan
ScientificName: Cycas revoluta
scientificNameAuthorship: Thunb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cycadaceae
genus: Cycas
specificEpithet: revoluta
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Hat made of the leaves. This is ingeniously and neatly made, the leaf itself is used the petiole forming the framework of the hat, the pinnae being interwoven. Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029050
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Queensland
identifiedBy: Maconochie JR
ScientificName: Bowenia serrulata
scientificNameAuthorship: (W.Bull) Chamb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zamiaceae
genus: Bowenia
specificEpithet: serrulata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Possibly part of Type collection. Holotype is plate in W.Bull. catalogue (1878) 4.t.5. see Johnson 1959


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029072
locality: Chatsworth
ScientificName: Encephalartos caffer
scientificNameAuthorship: (Thunb.) Lehm.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zamiaceae
genus: Encephalartos
specificEpithet: caffer
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A model of a scale with fruit from the ? of the Encephalartos caffer, at Chatsworth showing the appearance of the scales in July 1848 whem they ? from the axis of the cone.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029076
modified: 2005-06-23 12:01:32.200000
locality: Norwich, Sprowston Lodge
ScientificName: Encephalartos altensteinii
scientificNameAuthorship: Lehm.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zamiaceae
genus: Encephalartos
specificEpithet: altensteinii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The name of this specimen was altered to E. altensteinii probably by the Director, the pencil alteration was quite distinct before re-labelling, but it is now somewhat blurred through soaking off the label. JHH Jan. 1st 1904.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029086
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: Natal, Little Berg, near Cathkin Peak
ScientificName: Encephalartos ghellinckii
scientificNameAuthorship: Lem.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zamiaceae
genus: Encephalartos
specificEpithet: ghellinckii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Weight of cone when fresh 21lbs. Flora of South Africa. Little Berg overlooking the Inkosizaan ? valley, Cathkin Peak, Natal. Only plant seen. Stem 5ft high; bore 2 cones on a circular cushion about 3' high with vertical sides composed of a dense woolly tawny tomentum.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029089
modified: 2005-06-22 11:11:27.467000
country: Tanzania
countryCode: TZ
locality: East Africa, Dar-es-Salaam
ScientificName: Encephalartos hildebrandtii
scientificNameAuthorship: A.Braun & C.D.Bouché
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zamiaceae
genus: Encephalartos
specificEpithet: hildebrandtii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Flora Zanguebarica. Fronds spinous on the edge of leaflets. See Herb. 14/3/68. This grows 5 - 6 feet high has an oblong cone of fruit and is found from Lat. 3 degrees south to Lat 8 degrees south on the coast.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029093
modified: 2005-06-22 11:14:04.107000
country: Tanzania
countryCode: TZ
locality: Zanzibar
ScientificName: Encephalartos hildebrandtii
scientificNameAuthorship: A.Braun & C.D.Bouché
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zamiaceae
genus: Encephalartos
specificEpithet: hildebrandtii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  My Dear Hooker, I send you a female cone of Encephalartos hildebrandtii  I don't think you have one but if you have, you may break it up and plant the seeds it grows easily but take  ???? . Your daughter tells me she is to illustrate Cycadeacea, I shall send  an outline to guide her in filling them up ??? John Kirk.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029105
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Kew
ScientificName: Encephalartos poggei
scientificNameAuthorship: Asch.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zamiaceae
genus: Encephalartos
specificEpithet: poggei
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Nov. 27 1905 grown ex kew. Male cones. Plant received in 1903 from Jarden Colonial Lacken ? Brussels.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000002913
recordNumber: 25
modified: 2016-07-25 15:58:44.787000
recordedBy: Herbert Sir Ivor
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain
ScientificName: Tilia × europaea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Malvaceae
genus: Tilia
specificEpithet: × europaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Old label reads Tilia vulgaris ?  A scanned image of the wood was included in the appendix of: Adam Bowett (2012) Woods in British Furniture-Making, 1400-1900: An Illustrated Historical Dictionary. Kew, Eng.: Oblong Creative Ltd. in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2012. xxxiii + 360 pp  In 2009 Campbell Norman-Smith of Buckinghamshire New University sanded, cleaned, and coated the right hand side of the side of the wood to be scanned with 2 coats of superfine white shellac and isopropynol alcohol whilst the left hand side was left unvarnished.   


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029137
modified: 2016-12-12 16:56:09.113000
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Fraser's Island
ScientificName: Macrozamia douglasii
scientificNameAuthorship: W.Hill ex F.M.Bailey
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zamiaceae
genus: Macrozamia
specificEpithet: douglasii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From Queensland by Baron von Mueller. E.douglasii F.& V., Systematic Census of Australian Plants, I., 110 (1882) Macrozamia douglasii, W.Hill (inedit) Stem not tall; leaf-stalks rather long, somewhat channelled; thornless; leaves much elongated; their segments numerous, broad-linear, gradually narrowed to the pointed summit, nearly flat at the margin, inserted along the edges of the above hardly raised rhachis; the upper segments gradually shorter and narrower, the lower not much shorter than the middle segments, only the very lowest or downward hardly any of them much abbreviated; antheriferous amentum ellipsoid, not so long as its glabrous stalk; its scales also glabrous, those of the middle and lower portion of the amentum simply endingin a triangular not spinulous apex, but externally depressed into a small flat rhomboid aureole; scales of the upper portion gradually extended into a terminal spine, but the latter, even in the uppermost scales, conspicuously shorter than the antheriferous area; fruit bearing amentum rather large, glabrous, nearly twice as long and broad as that of the other sex, ellipsoid, with a slightly conical attenuation upwards; the seeds bearing scales not appressed, thornless, far from reaching the summit of theexternal area of the scales; nuts rather large.  On sand lands of Fraser's Island, sometimes growing gregariously. (Extra print from the Melbourne 'Chemist and Druggist' Feb 1883.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029171
modified: 2003-12-05 18:54:02.810000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: Miami, Florida
ScientificName: Zamia angustifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: Jacq.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zamiaceae
genus: Zamia
specificEpithet: angustifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No. 116 Dec 27 1887. Zamia pumila (Miami) should be Z. floridana DC. (Charles J Chambers?)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029206
modified: 2006-05-10 16:26:35.410000
country: Reunion
countryCode: RE
locality: Ile Reunion, Grand Boule, St Philippe
identifiedBy: Summerhayes VS
ScientificName: Angraecum eburneum
scientificNameAuthorship: Bory
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
genus: Angraecum
specificEpithet: eburneum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Lip center green, the outer part white, rest of perianth green, fragrance sweet, strong.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029208
modified: 1997-01-06 00:00:00
locality: Ile de Bourbon
identifiedBy: P J Cribb
ScientificName: Jumellea fragrans
scientificNameAuthorship: (Thouars) Schltr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
genus: Jumellea
specificEpithet: fragrans
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Imported to Paris from Ile de Bourbon. Label enclosed of Faham Tea.Originally Angraecum fragrans Thou.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029220
modified: 2006-05-08 15:33:47.207000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Kew Gardens
ScientificName: Dendrobium secundum
scientificNameAuthorship: (Blume) Lindl. ex Wall.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
genus: Dendrobium
specificEpithet: secundum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Showing fibre.  Six strands partly plaited together.  Old grey sheaths come off in beating and rinsing, completely altering their appearance, as shown in bottom 8 inches of this specimen.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029224
modified: 2006-05-08 15:32:37.160000
locality: New Guinea
ScientificName: Diplocaulobium ischnopetalum
scientificNameAuthorship: (Schltr.) Kraenzl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
genus: Diplocaulobium
specificEpithet: ischnopetalum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  New Guinea orchid. Schlechter in K. Schum & Lauterb. Nachtr. H Deutsch. Schutzgeb Sudsee p.153


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029235
modified: 2006-04-20 15:25:30.533000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India
ScientificName: Eulophia
scientificNameAuthorship: R.Br.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
genus: Eulophia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Specimen sent in for identification stated by donor to have been in possession of his father for about 50 years.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029248
recordNumber: V.3771
modified: 1997-01-06 00:00:00
recordedBy: Edgerley LF
country: Mauritius
countryCode: MU
locality: Mauritius
eventDate: 1957-12-23 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 23/12/1957
ScientificName: Graphorkis concolor var. alphabetica
scientificNameAuthorship: F.N.Rasm.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
genus: Graphorkis
specificEpithet: concolor
infraspecificEpithet: alphabetica
taxonRank: VARIETY
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  H.1196-1959 Bon Courage, Bel Ombre (?) Cult. in Conservator of Forests Comm. RE Vaughan 24.v.1959


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029264
modified: 2006-05-04 14:55:01.787000
country: Türkiye
countryCode: TR
locality: Turkey
ScientificName: Orchis
scientificNameAuthorship: Tourn. ex L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
genus: Orchis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Turkiye Kizilay Cemiyeti Directions for use - Salep for 7 persons. Dissolve desired quanity of sugar in 2 1/4 pints of boiling milk (or water). Stir 1 ounce of Capa's Salep for 15 to 20 minutes continually and boil till it gets viscous with occasional stirring.  Drunk at breakfast; afternoon; and evening teatime by simply reducing its viscosity with the addition of mild sweet milk and occasional stirring.  Advantages - soothes and helps heal sore throat, bronchitis and other colds.  Servesas nourishment to weak babies and advocated as such by physicians.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029266
recordNumber: 8840A
modified: 2007-05-25 11:35:17.260000
recordedBy: Milne-Redhead E, Taylor P
country: Tanzania
countryCode: TZ
locality: Tanganyika, Matagoro Hills , South of Songea
eventDate: 1956-02-22 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 22/02/1956
identifiedBy: P J Cribb
ScientificName: Polystachya dendrobiiflora
scientificNameAuthorship: Rchb.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
genus: Polystachya
specificEpithet: dendrobiiflora
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Further material of No 8840 from a different locality and altitude. Epiphyte on Vellozia on rock outcrops. Originally Polystacha tayloriana Rendle


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029267
modified: 2006-01-17 16:29:16.413000
country: Montserrat
countryCode: MS
locality: Montserrat
ScientificName: Vanilla planifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: Andrews
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
genus: Vanilla
specificEpithet: planifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Reported upon by  HR Arnold as a very good quality of wild vanillas. Soluble which woud make about 6/ per lb. and there would be no difficulty  in  ?? at this figure.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029271
modified: 2007-09-05 12:24:25.970000
country: Trinidad and Tobago
countryCode: TT
locality: Trinidad, Botanic gardens
ScientificName: Vanilla planifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: Andrews
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
genus: Vanilla
specificEpithet: planifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:   'Sion House' variety Report by Mr Arnold  of Buryoyne Burbidges H Dated Coleman st. London E1 12.2.1896 The beans are somewhat mixed in character and do not appear to be very well cured, they are however fairly mealy but their flavour is coarse. They would be worth nominally from 10/- to 11/- per lb.  This report refers to a sample of selected beans of the same variety rec'd. at the same time.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029276
recordNumber: 477
modified: 2010-03-18 10:34:38.837000
recordedBy: Faulkner H
country: Malawi
countryCode: MW
locality: Malawi
eventDate: 1949-11-27 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 27/11/1949
identifiedBy: P J Cribb
ScientificName: Polystachya dendrobiiflora
scientificNameAuthorship: Rchb.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
genus: Polystachya
specificEpithet: dendrobiiflora
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Flora of Nyasaland. Milange Road. Flowers pale to very pale mauve. Vellozia plants with host plants. See spirit collection. Originally Polystachya tayloriana Rendle


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029287
modified: 2006-05-09 17:00:33.397000
country: Trinidad and Tobago
countryCode: TT
locality: Trinidad Botanic Gardens
ScientificName: Vanilla pompona
scientificNameAuthorship: Schiede
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
genus: Vanilla
specificEpithet: pompona
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sample of Martinique vanilla. These are sold at times in our markets, March and April. Guadeloupe and Martinique vanilla, This is prepared in a greasy manner and is tied together with thread. The pods ?? that it cannot be the produce of V.planifolia but from the form taken on by our own produce, I should judge it to be produced by V. grandifolia Rehl. The pod is a mealy one and very sweet and is used locally plain and where steeped in rum for flavourings ices puddings etc. These are identical with Vanillons from..???


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029296
modified: 2006-01-17 16:25:32.157000
country: BU
countryCode: BU
locality: Burma, Mergui, Grown at the Experimental Garden
ScientificName: Vanilla
scientificNameAuthorship: Plum. ex Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
genus: Vanilla
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Report by Burgoyne Burbidge & Co, 12 & 16 Coleman Street E.6. June 2nd 1891. Vanilla beans from Mergui. 'These Vanillas are very dry, lean, and unsightly, although the flavour is fairly good, the present commercial value of beans of this quality is about 3/- to 3/6 per pound' H.Arnold.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029299
modified: 2010-04-28 14:26:11.027000
country: Seychelles
countryCode: SC
locality: Seychelles, Amitee Estate
ScientificName: Vanilla
scientificNameAuthorship: Plum. ex Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
genus: Vanilla
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Praslin, Seychelles. Seychelles vanillla from Mr D' Emmerez, Amittee Estate, Praslin. Considered as one of the finest samples of vanilla produced in Seychelles. A neighbouring estate to the above 'Cote d'or' produced in 1896 5,000 pounds sterling worth of vanilla.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029300
modified: 2010-04-28 14:29:24.223000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Madras
ScientificName: Orchidaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Juss.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Allium sp (A. macleanii?) L.A.B. 29.3.28. May be a pseudobulb of a species of Pholidota. Copy (M37-28) Further reply suggested for Lepidoth of Rotterdam. Specimen sent to Kew last month under the name of Salapmisri. I suggested as a pseudobulb of a species of Pholidota on account of close agreement with specimen in the Kew Museum named pseudobulbs of Pholidota imbricata. Signed L.A.B. 28.3.1928.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029304
modified: 2010-04-28 14:28:42.950000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India
ScientificName: Orchidaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Juss.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Three specimens, one cut across, Dried bulbs (From India) India Agencies, M.B.H. 10 Spitaler St. Hamburg. The specimes are apparently the bulbs of a species of Allium. probably A.macleanii Bak. This species grows in Afghanistan and Baluchistan and its bulbs, or similar bulbs of other species are imported  into India and are known as Badshah Salep or Royal Salep. This drug can, no doubt be obtained from Bombay and some other parts of India.  Bulbs of fairly similar character may be obtained from other species, which are native in India, eg. Allium robustum, occurring in both India and Afghanistan. L.A.B.28.3.28. M142-28 Further reply suggested for Lepidoth of Rotterdam (M37-28). Specimens sent to Kew last month under the name of Salpamies (?) and suggested as a pseudobulb of a species of Pholidota on account of close agreement with specimens in the Kew Museum named pseudobulbs of Pholidota imbricata. Signed L.A.B. 28.3.1928. (See leter M37-28) M142.28 - Sample of dried bulbs understood to grow in India for name. - 'We beg to forward you under separate cover a sample of dried bulbs (which we understand grow in India) of an Allium variety of which we are purchasing about 5 to 10 tons monthly, we shall feel greatly obliged if you will kindly inform from which districts these bulbs may be obtained' Letter India Agencies M.B.H. (Mr Fuhrhop, Managing Director)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029307
modified: 2006-08-07 15:18:50.573000
country: Trinidad and Tobago
countryCode: TT
locality: Trinidad
ScientificName: Orchidaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Juss.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Orchidaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Megachile sp. This insect, which is allied to a species of leaf cutter bee found in Brazil, destroys plants of Coryanthes in Trinidad.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029318
recordNumber: 16456
recordedBy: Dymock
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Maharashtra, Bombay, India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia-Tropical
ScientificName: Aframomum korarima
scientificNameAuthorship: (J.Pereira) Engl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Aframomum
specificEpithet: korarima
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Plant not known not yet identified (? Burkill) 14.v.28. Entry-book source:  Col & Ind Exhib Govt of India. Specimens recd. from the Indian Economic Court.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029326
modified: 2006-08-16 17:22:52.023000
country: Tanzania
countryCode: TZ
locality: Tanzania, East Tropical Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Aframomum
scientificNameAuthorship: K.Schum.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Aframomum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mr Holland, I agree that these seeds are closely related to the 2 samples labelled Amomum sp and Aframomum danielli (Amomum angustifolium) respectively but I think it would be unwise to name them specifically without more information. C.R.M. 7.11.1933 Tanganyika.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029336
country: Hong Kong
countryCode: HK
locality: Hong Kong, China Southeast, China, Asia Temperate
ScientificName: Alpinia galanga
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Willd.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Alpinia
specificEpithet: galanga
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Supposed fruits of Amomum medium from Hong Kong. Imperial Institute Scientific Department 40366 Said to be imported from Kwan?? and Kwangsi 'Tso Kwa' see letter 572, 1911 VI I.p.43. JHH.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029342
country: Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
countryCode: SH
locality: St Helena, Middle Atlantic Ocean, Africa
ScientificName: Alpinia zerumbet
scientificNameAuthorship: (Pers.) B.L.Burtt & R.M.Sm.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Alpinia
specificEpithet: zerumbet
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Lt Col. Dixon acting Governor The Castle, St Helena. Recd. June 21st 1918.(Letter 267, 1918:xii.p.115) Remainder of sample sent to Clayton Beadle  ??. 25.VI.18.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029347
country: Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
countryCode: SH
locality: St Helena, Middle Atlantic Ocean, Africa
ScientificName: Alpinia zerumbet
scientificNameAuthorship: (Pers.) B.L.Burtt & R.M.Sm.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Alpinia
specificEpithet: zerumbet
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Remainder of sample sent to Clayton Beadle & Stevens, 15 Boro' London Bridge S.E. 25.VI.18.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029349
modified: 2017-09-08 08:47:14.400000
country: Taiwan
countryCode: TW
locality: Taiwan, Tumsui, Eastern Asia, Asia Temperate
ScientificName: Alpinia
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Alpinia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From the leaves a kind of cloth is made, and the raw material is called Wild hemp skin ? The plant grows wild in Tamsui, Formosa. Fibre-plant from Formosa - Can you tell me what name was suggested for ? plant from Formosa said to yield a fibre, sent here for name 2 or 3 months ago? I think it was an Aplinia. Email from Yi-Jyun, National Taiwan Normal University 8/9/2017: preliminary identification is Alpinia zerumbet.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000002935
modified: 2006-06-12 16:30:57.120000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Ilminster
ScientificName: Tilia
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Malvaceae
genus: Tilia
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Letter from JS Murray (Ass. Pathologist) answering a query from D Colthurst about 'pock marks' on the bark of the specimen. See specimen. Original in archives.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029371
modified: 2006-07-27 15:19:43.763000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Assam, India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Etlingera linguiformis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Roxb.) R.M.Sm.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Etlingera
specificEpithet: linguiformis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Customs declaration. Used for chewing with Betel Nut. Named in Herbarium as above. Which occurs in tropical Eastern Himalayas, Sikkim, Khasia hills and Begal. Not in D.S.P. India but an allied species in Ceylon is used in connection with Betel chewing. Asked to send flower in spirit and a dried stem with leaves. Also piece of root to grow at Kew. Photo returned. Letter dated 22/10/1931. Noted and returned to Dr. D. 07/11/1931 JHH. H.22 79/31. M.496/31 Specimen of roots sent by Mr H Brian and C Hill, Chabua P.O. Upper Assam. Letter dated Assam 20/9/31. 'Enclosing a tinted photograph and drawing of a plant for name .... The plant I have grows to about 6 to 7 feet in height and produces roots which to my mind should be of some commercial value. Under separate cover I have posted you a small sample. The late Sir George Batt ? was unable to identify the plant from my description and a dried root sample, so I think it is just possible that the plant is unknown botanically. I discovered the plantgrowing in the garden of an old Assamese family who say the root is greatly prized for eating along with betel nut and pan, but that it is very scarce. I was fortunate in obtaining a small portion of the root from which today I have a small clump of the plant growing. Asking if ? to have his name in some way connected with the naming.' ' I am not aware if you could take up the question as to whether the root is likely to have any commercial value but seeing that the root is so greatly prized for eating, has a nice strong aromatic smell and not an unpleasant taste it may possible have some commercial value and would be well worth investigating. The plant is growing well with me and should yield a heavy crop of dried roots. T.V.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029378
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan, Eastern Asia, Asia Temperate
identifiedBy: Burkill JH
ScientificName: Amomum xanthioides
scientificNameAuthorship: Wall. ex Baker
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Amomum
specificEpithet: xanthioides
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mixed 3 or 4 different imported cardamoms. Verified by Mr Boodle April 1912. 25.4.12.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029384
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Asia Temperate
ScientificName: Amomum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Amomum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Peeled cardamoms Ph. Journal XIV, p.353, fig 2. Sent to Mr Burkill at Herbarium 16.v.28. for name but left identified.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029388
modified: 2007-09-06 11:27:04.150000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Asia Temperate
ScientificName: Amomum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Amomum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sent to Mr Burkill at Herbarium 16.v.28. for name but not identified. Ph. Journal XIV, p 353, fig.1.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000000294
recordNumber: 10.110
modified: 1994-01-24 00:00:00
recordedBy: Hoogland RD, Craven LA
country: Papua New Guinea
countryCode: PG
locality: Papua New Guinea, Sepik district, Nr Ambunti, New Guinea, Malesia, Asia Tropical
eventDate: 1966-05-21 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 21/05/1966
ScientificName: Cyathocalyx
scientificNameAuthorship: Champ. ex Hook.f. & Thomson
kingdom: Plantae
family: Annonaceae
genus: Cyathocalyx
occurrenceRemarks:
Entry book - In rain forest on alluvial fan. Tree 21m tall, 15.5m bole, 25cm dbh. Leaves semi-glossy dark green above, paler below. Flowers creamy. Fruit cream with red blotches, turning very dark red


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029414
modified: 2005-07-05 16:47:48.210000
country: Sierra Leone
countryCode: SL
locality: Sierra Leone, West Tropical Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Curcuma
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Curcuma
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Examined by Mr Boodle - Curcuma sp but differs some what from typical turmeric. It may be closely allied to C.longa. (See letter 390, 1913, viii p.139) JHH 20.viii.13.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029421
modified: 2005-08-02 17:12:01.353000
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: Nigeria, Sokoto, West Tropical Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Curcuma
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Curcuma
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See letter book, 55A.1925, p.76 XVI Bought in Sokoto market. Obtained from Zazou in Java. Is the root of a small shrub.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029426
modified: 2012-06-12 09:52:20.487000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: Transvaal, South Africa, North East Zoutpansberg, Southern Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Curcuma
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Curcuma
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter from Burtt-Davy Transvaal received at Kew 18th Nov. 1907  Sherungulu. 549/1907 Garden number on above letter noted Mr Hillier 19.XI.13. 129/1907 'Sherungulu' tubers (Kaempferia sp) From the N.E. portion of the Zoutpansberg highly prized by the natives for medical purposes: see letter 385, 1907 J.B. Davy to Director.and Trans. Agric. Journ IX.Oct.1910, pp 45-46. J.H.H. 14.XI.1913. Kaempferia sp.? No herbarium specimens received with these roots, but leaves and flowers of Sherungulu received 21st March 1905 = Kaempferia etheleae Medly Wood. Curcuma aeruginosa refers one to the Cambridge specimen so far as at present known. CHW 17.11.13.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029440
modified: 1994-02-28 00:00:00
country: Sri Lanka
countryCode: LK
locality: Sri Lanka, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Elettaria cardamomum var. major
scientificNameAuthorship: Thwaites
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Elettaria
specificEpithet: cardamomum
infraspecificEpithet: major
taxonRank: VARIETY
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Carey Strachan & Co.Specimen verified by J Cowely, RBG Kew, Feb 1994 - capsule oblong or globose. Robust 2.5-5cm long fruits (wild in Sri Lanka) seeds more numerous and less aromatic than cultivated varieties. Ref Revised flora of Sri Lanka


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029442
modified: 2010-03-16 14:54:39.103000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Amomum subulatum
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Amomum
specificEpithet: subulatum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Purchased in Southall, London. Net. Weight 100g 3.53 oz. Previously labelled Elettaria cardamomum Maton  Specimen verified by J Cowley, RBG Kew, Feb 1994.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029457
recordNumber: 17
recordedBy: Henshall coll. Box 11
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: Moluccas, Amboina Island, Indonesia, Malesia, Asia Tropical
eventDate: 1854-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1854
ScientificName: Globba
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Globba
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Eaten like other fruits for its acidulous (?) quality. The fruit grows from a short rhizome level with the surface of the ground. In all the dense forests. No. 17.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029458
modified: 2005-07-05 16:49:47.993000
ScientificName: Hedychium coronarium
scientificNameAuthorship: J.Koenig
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Hedychium
specificEpithet: coronarium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  'You will be interested to hear that we have dressed some of the fibre from the green stem and the tensile strength tests indicate that it is almost exactly similar in strength to the best pure manila tinder twine. Of course our supplies have been extremely limited so that it has only been possible for us to determine the tensile strength of the individual fibres - vascular bundles in comparison with that of manila of equal thickness. We should be very pleased to give you the figures if they would be of interest to you. You will observe from the small sample enclosed that it is also practically the same in appearance. Extract from letter Mr Clayton Beadle 18/10/1912, To Director, see letter 494, 1912, Book VIII.p.k.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029459
country: Uganda
countryCode: UG
locality: Uganda, East Tropical Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Hedychium coronarium
scientificNameAuthorship: J.Koenig
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Hedychium
specificEpithet: coronarium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Manufactured by Messr. Clayton Beadle & Stevens. The assistant Director thought that you might like this for the museum. L.A.B. 21.XI.12


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029485
country: Sierra Leone
countryCode: SL
locality: Sierra Leone, West Tropical Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Zingiber officinale
scientificNameAuthorship: Roscoe
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Zingiber
specificEpithet: officinale
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Imported from Sierra Leone The rhizomes or under-ground stems of Z.officinale, Rosc. Cultivated in the East, and West Indies, Africa and China.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029486
country: Vietnam
countryCode: VN
locality: Vietnam, Cochin China, Indo-China, Asia-Tropical
ScientificName: Zingiber officinale
scientificNameAuthorship: Roscoe
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Zingiber
specificEpithet: officinale
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Imported from Cochin China The rhizomes or under-ground stems of Z.officinale, Rosc. Cultivated in the East, and the West Indies, Africa and China.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029491
modified: 2005-07-05 16:02:54.807000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Asia-Temperate
ScientificName: Zingiber officinale
scientificNameAuthorship: Roscoe
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Zingiber
specificEpithet: officinale
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Procured at Hong Kong, imported from Szechwan, China. Sample of dry ginger. Imperial Institute, 40366. The specimens agree in structure with Zingiber officinale, and there appears to be no reason to doubt that they belong to that species. L.A.B. 19.X.11 (See letter 572, 1911, VII.p.43) J.H.H. 25.X.11.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029495
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Maharashtra, Bombay, India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia-Tropical
ScientificName: Zingiber officinale
scientificNameAuthorship: Roscoe
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Zingiber
specificEpithet: officinale
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The rhizomes or under-ground stems, cultivated in the East, and West Indies, Africa and China.  Imported from Bombay.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029498
modified: 2005-07-05 16:00:20.210000
country: Ethiopia
countryCode: ET
locality: Ethiopia, Abyssinia, Northeast Tropical Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Zingiber officinale
scientificNameAuthorship: Roscoe
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Zingiber
specificEpithet: officinale
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Note from list J.H.H. Collected in Abyssinia wild locally along shores of lake, collected and sold in market. Bahrdar Georgia (?)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029499
modified: 2005-07-05 16:03:44.917000
country: Jamaica
countryCode: JM
locality: Jamaica, Caribbean, Southern America
ScientificName: Zingiber officinale
scientificNameAuthorship: Roscoe
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
genus: Zingiber
specificEpithet: officinale
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The rhizomes or underground stems of Z.officinale, Rosc. Cultivated in the East, and West Indies, Africa and China. Imported from Jamaica


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029503
modified: 2012-05-15 14:50:01.020000
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: New Guinea, Aru Islands, Malesia, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Zingiberaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Martinov
kingdom: Plantae
family: Zingiberaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cone of Ginger like plant. Leave bundles & c in the same ? Little Ke Also cone bright scarlet when fresh


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029504
modified: 2014-07-14 16:50:19.127000
ScientificName: Fagus sylvatica
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fagaceae
genus: Fagus
specificEpithet: sylvatica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Stored with ginger items in Museum 2 RBG Kew. No label Wood species identified on basis of appearance by visitors from West Dean 2014.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029505
modified: 1993-11-18 00:00:00
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: Moluccas, (Ceram), Seram, Indonesia, Malesia, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Watsonia
scientificNameAuthorship: Boehm.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Malvaceae
genus: Watsonia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This is probably a Watsonia corm (Iridaceae) Was labelled as Costus pungens Teijsm. & Binn. which is wrong.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029509
modified: 1994-01-14 00:00:00
country: Dominica
countryCode: DM
locality: Dominica, Windward Islands, Caribbean, Southern America
ScientificName: Calathea lutea
scientificNameAuthorship: (Aubl.) E.Mey. ex Schult.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Marantaceae
genus: Calathea
specificEpithet: lutea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The inflorescence stalk is often used instead of Ischnosiphon arouma Koern for making baskets


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029511
modified: 2008-10-27 12:43:13.067000
country: Solomon Islands
countryCode: SB
locality: Solomon Islands, Southwestern Pacific, Pacific
ScientificName: Marantochloa
scientificNameAuthorship: Brongn. ex Gris
kingdom: Plantae
family: Marantaceae
genus: Marantochloa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Disintegrated leaves of Clinogyne sp steeped in fragrant oil and used as a perfume by natives of Solomon Islands.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029512
modified: 1994-01-13 00:00:00
country: Solomon Islands
countryCode: SB
locality: Solomon Islands, Ysabel Island, Southwestern Pacific, Pacific
ScientificName: Marantochloa
scientificNameAuthorship: Brongn. ex Gris
kingdom: Plantae
family: Marantaceae
genus: Marantochloa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sweet smelling leaves used as a perfume by the natives of Ysabel Island. Used to envelope perfumed leaves. Phrynuim?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029514
modified: 2019-07-18 10:19:19.290000
country: Guyana
countryCode: GY
locality: Guyana, (British Guiana), Northern South America, Southern America
ScientificName: Ischnosiphon arouma
scientificNameAuthorship: (Aubl.) Körn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Marantaceae
genus: Ischnosiphon
specificEpithet: arouma
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cassava strainer made probably of Ischnoisphon arouma Koern. Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029517
modified: 1994-01-13 00:00:00
ScientificName: Maranta arundinacea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Marantaceae
genus: Maranta
specificEpithet: arundinacea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Purchased by museums staff in West London. Epicure brand. 100g (3.5 oz) net. Hints on using Epicure Arrowroot, For desserts: flavour sauce with vanilla or other flavouring, add sugar to taste, serve warm as a custard or cold set in moulds.For thickening gravies or meat sauces. Mix 1 teaspoonful with a little stock or cold water into a smooth paste, then add to bulk of stock. Gently heat whilst stirring. To ease stomach sickness and intestinal upsets, 1.5 teaspoonsful in a basin, mix to paste with a little cold milk. Stir, whilst adding 1/3 pint boiling milk to smooth sauce. Return to pan and stir whilst gently heating for a few minutes.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029522
modified: 2013-04-02 15:22:03.270000
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: Nigeria, Old Calabar, West Tropical Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Maranta arundinacea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Marantaceae
genus: Maranta
specificEpithet: arundinacea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Prepared with rainwater. Report on the samples of Arrowroot prepared at Old Calabar by Dr JH Holland One prepared with spring water and the other with rainwater. Mr LD Hawser (?) Dowgate Park (?) Upper Thames Street EC.  Both samples we  ?color especially in jelly where they should be of a ? ? almost colourless. Both are thin in jelly and do not dissolve completely. Of the two we think that the one irrigated with spring water to be possibly most unsatisfactory. Both seem to require refining.... and both seem to have been artificially or kiln dried where as we venture a suggestion that they might be better if sun or air dried. So that you yourselves may form an independent judgement we send you a sample of a about the lowest grade commercial quality (other than for manufactured goods such as coco and Cattle (?) spice) that is obtainable in the market. And also a sample of the highest grade, a ? ? ..We think if you make jellies of these and jellies of the other by ? the paste with cold waterand then adding boiling water you will see plainly that our objection is well founded. We believe that in Bermuda, which as no doubt you are aware provides the finest description (?) of arrowroot. The starch is washed from the comminuted tubes invariably with rainwater. We might add that after the tubes are first washed and deprived of their scales all discoloured and defective portions are removed naturally this can be done only by hand. Faithfully yours Mr Hawser (?)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029525
modified: 1994-01-13 00:00:00
country: Mauritius
countryCode: MU
locality: Mauritius, Botanic Garden, Western Indian Ocean, Africa
ScientificName: Maranta arundinacea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Marantaceae
genus: Maranta
specificEpithet: arundinacea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From plants grown in the Botanic Gardens. The Arrowroot has been prepared from roots grown in the garden.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029528
modified: 1994-01-13 00:00:00
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: Nigeria, South Nigeria, West Tropical Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Thaumatococcus daniellii
scientificNameAuthorship: (Benn.) Benth. ex Eichler
kingdom: Plantae
family: Marantaceae
genus: Thaumatococcus
specificEpithet: daniellii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From Director of Agriculture, South Nigeria ii.vi.12. Letter 65. 1912, vii. p106   Dear Mr Johnston We are desirous of obtaining some fruits for the Museum and seeds for growing, of Thaumatococcus danielli, Bth. (Phrynium danielli, Benn.). This as you may be aware is known as the 'Miraculous fruit of the Soudan', and as 'Katemfe' or 'Katemphe' by the Akoos and other Yoruba tribes. Will you be so good as to have specimens collected for Kew, and oblige, Yours truly Director Some of the fruits sent Recd. from Herb.13.vi.12 JHH.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029532
modified: 1993-10-29 00:00:00
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Kew, Botanic Gardens, Northern Europe, Europe
ScientificName: Ensete edule
scientificNameAuthorship: Bruce ex Horan.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Ensete
specificEpithet: edule
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Grown in the Palm House and cleaned by Andrew's patent fibre-cleaning machine Hort. Kew 1873 Cleaned in a fresh state with water machine.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029533
modified: 1993-10-29 00:00:00
country: Jamaica
countryCode: JM
locality: Jamaica, Caribbean, Southern America
ScientificName: Ensete edule
scientificNameAuthorship: Bruce ex Horan.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Ensete
specificEpithet: edule
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No. 10 Botanical Department Jamaica 5.4.84. Abysinian Banana (Musa ensete) naturalised in Jamaica at 5000 ft. Some specimens are 15 to 20 feet high, the stem about 2 foot 9 to 3 feet in diameter and weighing more than a 1/4 of a ton. The fibre prepared by hand, is yeilded in large quantities by leaf sheaths and cortex core.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029540
modified: 2006-11-03 15:14:30.890000
ScientificName: Heliconia
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Heliconiaceae
genus: Heliconia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Used to wrap gum of Bursera gummifera L. to form torches. Used generally in West Indian Islands.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029541
modified: 1993-10-29 00:00:00
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Queensland, Daintree River, Australia, Australasia
ScientificName: Musa banksii
scientificNameAuthorship: F.Muell.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: banksii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From the Queensland Acclimatisation Society Musa with erect fruiting stem. Fruit borne on upright stem. (27) ?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029542
modified: 2010-07-01 17:04:26.123000
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Queensland, Australia, Australasia
ScientificName: Musa banksii
scientificNameAuthorship: F.Muell.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: banksii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fibre prepared from Musa Banksii. Habit and properties: A fine ornamental foliage plant, yields a fibre of good quality, not unlike that of M. textilis The Mundle (?) Hemp plant.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029554
modified: 1993-10-29 00:00:00
country: Malaysia
countryCode: MY
locality: Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia, Malacca, Malesia, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Musa malaccensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Ridl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: malaccensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Reported on by Messrs Ide and Christie, 2 Mark Lane, as follows.  Good colour very woody, little weight for its bulk, has little strength and brittle. Value $20 per ton in London, (6.5.89). According to Mr Baker this is M. sapientum, (4.1.93).  Mr Derry is certain it is not M. sapientum 4.1.93.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029562
modified: 1993-11-26 00:00:00
country: Guyana
countryCode: GY
occurrenceRemarks: Label source: Contributed by I de Putron.
ScientificName: Musa × paradisiaca
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: × paradisiaca
locality:
Guyana, East Seacoast Demerara, Plantation Vigilance, (British Guiana), Northern South America, Southern America


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029580
modified: 2006-04-21 10:32:41.643000
country: Taiwan
countryCode: TW
locality: Taiwan, Eastern Asia, Asia Temperate, Loochoo (Liukiu) Island
ScientificName: Musa × paradisiaca subsp. sapientum
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Kuntze
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: × paradisiaca
infraspecificEpithet: sapientum
taxonRank: Subspecies
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Habitat in declinitate prope Ogimi, ms Liu-Kiu, m. maio florens. Sliam per totam insulame culta. Japanese Botanical Magazine XI 1897 p 69. Notes on some Liukiu plants by Prof. Matsumura. Loochow (otherwise Liukiu or Riu kiw (Chambers encly.vi p.713)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029588
modified: 2010-01-14 16:56:50.307000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Tamil Nadu, Madras, India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Musa × paradisiaca
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: × paradisiaca
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Drawing paper made from plantain fibres, Chingleput jail. Paper made from plantain fibres and old gunny bags, Chingleput jail. Paper made from plantain fibres (colour spoilt by rotting), Chingleput jail. Packing paper made from plantain fibre, Chingleput jail. Tested by the Military board found to be strong light and durable.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029595
modified: 1993-10-29 00:00:00
country: Jamaica
countryCode: JM
locality: Jamaica, Caribbean, Southern America
ScientificName: Musa × sapientum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: × sapientum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  About 1 1/4 millions of Banana stems annually cut down in Jamaica which if some means were devised to extract the fibre expeditionsly the country would save # 20000 worth of fibre now absolutely wasted. This specimen has been prepared by hand.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029596
modified: 2006-10-30 11:53:44.797000
country: Jamaica
countryCode: JM
locality: Jamaica, Caribbean, Southern America
ScientificName: Musa × sapientum var. paradisiaca
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Baker
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: × sapientum
infraspecificEpithet: paradisiaca
taxonRank: Variety
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Plantain fibre not to largely cultivated as the banana for export purposes but the fruit forms an important item in the daily food of the Negros. The supply of plantain stems and hence of the fibre would however be not inconsiderable.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029608
modified: 2007-03-19 10:46:03.817000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: United States America, Northern America
ScientificName: Musa textilis
scientificNameAuthorship: Née
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: textilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Made from Manila rope. Manila Hemp paper. Dr Gray, Cambridge, Mass. Sample of Manila Rope from which the paper is made? Dear Sir William, In the first package I said I will forward to you one of the large and very strong sheets (?), such as  we use for covers to large parcels - also a specimen of what I think the very best thing for genus (?) covers. This paper sells for from 11 to 13 cents (5.5 to 6.5 pence) per lb. It is nearly all made by Hollingsworths. A Gray. Sample of Manilla Paper from J M & L Hollingsworth for Kew Gardens Museum.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029609
modified: 1994-01-06 00:00:00
ScientificName: Musa textilis
scientificNameAuthorship: Née
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: textilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter sent to archives. First German Patent Sieve Factory. (Substitute for horse hair). Having learnt your address through the German Rope newspaper,I ask you kindly to let me know the price of the book Report of the Botanical Gardens at Kew [= Kew Bulletin?], and where I can obtain it. You are perhaps in a position to give me information as to whether there is a more suitable fibre than Sisal and Manila Hemp. I manufacture these into a fabric, which should replace horse hair, but cannot yet feel quite satisfied as regards the difficulty of manufacture, which these fibres present. As you  know, these fibres split very readily; is there (perhaps) another fibre that would be more suitable? I beg to enclose a small sample, from which you will see the kind of fibre I can make use of. Translation by Mr Boodle 29/03/1909. Mr Boodle suggests that the glossy fibre is the Manila Hemp and the other Sisal.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029610
modified: 2006-08-23 09:58:22.977000
ScientificName: Musa textilis
scientificNameAuthorship: Née
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: textilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Letter 234 1923: XV. p. 87. The Edinburgh Roperie & Sailcloth Company Ltd. Leith. May 30th, 1923 Mr Gunn, acknowledge the receipt of his letter of the 19th instant (Ref. Q/R) and in reply to say that the sample of twine submitted for examination appears to consist of a mixture of Manila Hemp (Musa textilis) and either 'Sisal' (Agave sisalana) or the fibre of some other species of Agave. Manila Hemp probably forms between 50 and 75 per cent. of the fibre present.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029611
modified: 1994-01-06 00:00:00
ScientificName: Musa textilis
scientificNameAuthorship: Née
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: textilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cord made of the so called Manila Hemp which is the fibre of the Musa textilis See Hookers Journal of Bot. N.I. Lon. 1849. Mrs James Yates Lauderdale House, Highgate, London.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029615
modified: 2006-08-23 09:57:02.513000
ScientificName: Musa textilis
scientificNameAuthorship: Née
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: textilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  As packed for shipping. Sample of no value, Landauer & Co 36, Fenchurch St, London EC 3. Hemp, fibre & cereal merchants.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029616
modified: 2010-02-08 13:07:05.857000
country: Malaysia
countryCode: MY
locality: Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, Malesia, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Musa textilis
scientificNameAuthorship: Née
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: textilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Abaca Magdalena River S.America  Pisang utan of Sarawak. The Ford Works Co Ltd. near Sunderland 23 Dec 1875 - Mr T Thislteton Dyer. Dear Director, I find on returning home after a short absence you have been good enough to send the bamboo stem which for some reason or other, perhaps lateness in the season, want of sun last summer, slowness of growth to, is much more of a vegetable than I expected to find it and at least one half (the upper portion) is not sufficiently grown or matured for fibre and paper purposes.  However, this is so much more information gained and as I want all I can get am much obliged. Will you ask Dr Hooker if he can inform me whether he knows the variety of bamboo which grows (my information says) most abundantly inthe neighbourhood of Nagpur Central Provinces India? He describes it as not exceeding 2 1/2 to 3 inches diameter in stem. I learn from in the adjoining forests he finds large quanities of Arundinaria (?) falcata or a cane very similar - from the comparison  with samples I have with the leaves on - grown in Devonshire. Do you happen to have in the Palm House specimens of the Pisang utan of the archipelago; a friend of mine from Sarawak is anxious to go into this for Paper Stuff, but I find his dried samples most difficult to bleach. I imagine this Pisang if not identical is very similar to the Abaca of Central America (& the Philippines) this I have experimented upon, (also dried) and found it equally difficult on treatment and bleaching. I should mention that the samples I have operated upon are very roughly prepared I enclose a piece, apparently crushed and beaten, then hung up to dry in the sun. Now I have found with all similar fibres thus prepared the same difficulty and this Pisang especically I fancy contains a large quanity of tannin which has which has dyed (?) and thus fixed the colouring and muscilagenous compounds - so that the abstracted gluten in who brown and unbleachable ??. I am afraid you will deem me a most troublesome correspondant for thus so frequently troubling you. As I find no difficulty in heating and bleaching Manila Hemp, the Musa texilis - the Abaca there should be no difficulty in bleaching the Pisang of Borneo The only reason I concieve to be that the former has all the muscilaginous, glutenous and ?active matters separated from the stem - when it is in the green state - leaving only clean or nearly clean fibre - whereas this Pisang or Abaca crudely prepared fibre has not been freed from these extraneous compounds, which havebeen dried with - and tanned into the fibre - and therefore that if the Pisang were treated green a different result would be obtained. NB: I find green bamboo infinitely easier to heat than when dried.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029618
modified: 2019-07-23 10:07:27.887000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: Massachusetts, Northeastern USA, Northern America
ScientificName: Musa textilis
scientificNameAuthorship: Née
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: textilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The art of papermaking was developed by the Chinese in the first century. The theory and general techniques are still the same, both for handmade paper and fine commercial paper. In our studio, we make paper from plant materials - banana, nasturtium, begonia, iris, agave, papyrus. First the stalks of the plants are washed; then cut into small pieces and cooked in a caustic solution. After another washing, the plant material is beaten to a pulp, then mixed with a large quanity of water. Finally, each sheet of paper is individually formed on a screen. properly termed 'mould' then pressed and dried.  Elaine & Donna Koretsky Carriage House Handmade Paper Works. 8 Evans Road, Brookline, Massachusetts 02146 USA  Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition in Museum no.1, May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029622
modified: 1994-01-06 00:00:00
country: Philippines
countryCode: PH
locality: Philippines, Malesia, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Musa textilis
scientificNameAuthorship: Née
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: textilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sound 'L' grade Manila Hemp No. 8046 date 11/4/21 Letter 50,1921 XIV p.67 (dated 9 Feb. 1921) (Unsound 'J' grade)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029628
modified: 1993-12-09 00:00:00
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Tamil Nadu, Madras, India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Musa × sapientum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: × sapientum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cable rope made of plantain fibre by the children in the House of Correction at Madras.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029630
modified: 2006-08-24 09:51:57.157000
ScientificName: Musa × sapientum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: × sapientum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Purchased by museums staff in Southall London. Crunch... A melt in your mouth taste and you have just discovered the unique flavour of a green plantain chip. Their name is Chifles (pronounced chief-les). The plantain is a fruit that is imported from the same tropical countries as bananas. They are similar in appearance, but a plantain is larger and is eaten either green or ripe only when cooked. Ingredients: imported green plantains, partially hydrogenated soy bean oil, salt. Nutritional information per serving: Serving size 0.75 oz (21.28g), Servings per container 8, Potassium (K) 120mg, Fat 8.4g, Protein 0.38g, Calories (K Cal) 132, Iron (Fe) 0.35mg, Calcium (Ca) 0.79mg, Vitamin A (True) <20 USP, Thiamine <0.004mg, Riboflavin 0.045mg, Niacin 0.79mg, Vitamin C 3.2mg. Percentage of U.S. recommended daily allowances (U.S.R.D.A.) Protein 0.85, Iron 2.0, Calcium 0.08, Vitamin A <0.5, Thiamine <0.3, Riboflavin 2.6, Niacin 3.9, Vitamin C 5.0.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029632
modified: 2010-06-28 16:17:29.477000
ScientificName: Musa
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sample 2 Ref. (33/IB/34) C.S.R.D. Correspondence with Director, Kew Gardens of 30th April 1927. See letters M244/27 and 272/27. Two samples of cellulose [C33-1B-34(2)]. Chief Superintendent, Research Department, Woolwich, S.E.18.  The cellulose material C33-1B-34 (2) which proved more suitable for examination in the second sample, appears to be the fibre (with other tissue) of a species of Musa. L.A.B. 5/5/27. (The above to replace report on first sample. M244/27  The sample of cellulose (C33-1P-32 (2)) is the fibre of a monocotyledonous plant but it has not been found possible to determine it from what particular plant the fibre has been derived. L.A.B. 02/05/1927. Letter 30th April 1927 further sample recieved - raw material which it was thought might be better to identify. Mr Boodle.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029633
modified: 1993-12-09 00:00:00
country: Trinidad and Tobago
countryCode: TT
locality: Trinidad-Tobago, Trinidad, Caribbean, Southern America
ScientificName: Musa
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Musa textilis Nee. clone 'Tangongon'. Fibre samples from systematic dissection of pseudostem to show variation in fineness and colour. Prepared by JM Richardson 1955-56. See article in Tropical Agriculture Trinidad 1957. Section      Species                    Code (labels) Australimusa (2n=20)     1.M.textilis               T                         clone Tangongon           T(tg)                         clone Libuton             T(lb)                         clone St Vincent        T(sv)                         2.M.angustigemma          A                         3.M.lolodensis            L                         4.M.erecta                E                         5.M.peekelii              P Callimusa (2n=20)        6.M.violascens            V Eumusa    (2n=22)          M.balbisiana            Ba                           M.basjoo                Bo Hybrids (2n=20)          Parentage (female & male) S.H. 27                  6x1                       VT 27    114    6x3                       VL 114    117                  5x3                       PL 117    118                  5x6                       PV 118    135                  3x6                       LV 135    136                  3x1 (triploid)   LLT 136    142                  1x3                       TL 142    143                  1x6                       TV 143    144                  1x6                       TP 144    145                  6x2                       VA 145    146        5x2                       PA 146    148                  1x2                       TA 148


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029634
modified: 1993-12-09 00:00:00
country: Philippines
countryCode: PH
ScientificName: Musa
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
locality:
Philippines, Province of Negros Oriental, Island of Negros, Dumaguete (Cuernos Mts), Malesia, Asia Tropical

occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Came in a general collection of Phillippine plants. Distributed by ADE Elmer Recd. 22 April 1909 Musa textilis, Hort.? A bad specimen of leaf of Musa is at the Herbarium


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029638
modified: 1993-12-09 00:00:00
country: Guyana
countryCode: GY
locality: Guyana, (British Guiana), Northern South America, Southern America
ScientificName: Musa
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Part of Hemp taken out by Director to submit for report but not sent as having already been reported upon. J.H.H. 31.i.27.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029642
modified: 2006-09-25 11:40:32.527000
country: Guyana
countryCode: GY
locality: Guyana, Georgetown, Botanic Garden, (British Guiana), Northern South America, Southern America
ScientificName: Musa
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Valued at #20 - 25 per ton. Wild plantain (fruited) 1ozs valued at #20 per ton in London Nov. 1892 5 leaves (Wild Indian Banana) Jamaica Banana (not fruited) 4ozs 3/4; 18 leaves. Valued at #25 per ton in London Nov. 1892. Amababa or Apple Banana, valued at #24 to 25 per ton in London. Nov 1892 Chinese banana (fruited) 2ozs, 10 leaves. Valued at #24 per ton in London Nov. 1892. Giant green banana 6ozs, 13 leaves.Valued at #24 per ton in London Nov.1892 Red Banana (not fruited) 2ozs, 8 leaves. Valued at #24 per ton in London Nov. 1892 Jamaica Banana (fruited) 5ozs 1/4, 15 leaves. Valued at #24 per ton in London Nov. 1892


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029645
modified: 2006-09-25 09:55:02.840000
country: Malaysia
countryCode: MY
locality: Peninsular Malaysia, Melaka, (Malacca), Malaysia, Malesia, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Musa textilis
scientificNameAuthorship: Née
kingdom: Plantae
family: Musaceae
genus: Musa
specificEpithet: textilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Indian Archipelago. Jally Nanas. Material obtained from the leaf of the pine-apple plant by a very simple process. It closely resembles the fibre of the Abaca or Musa textilis or Manila Hemp. Can be produced in any quantity. Section R.198.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029654
recordNumber: 1100
modified: 2006-08-18 16:16:32.803000
recordedBy: Harrison SG, Persaud R
locality: Berbice River, Intermediate Savannah, Waranama Ranch
eventDate: 1958-06-11 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 11/06/1958
ScientificName: Phenakospermum guyannense
scientificNameAuthorship: (A.Rich.) Endl. ex Miq.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Strelitziaceae
genus: Phenakospermum
specificEpithet: guyannense
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Habitat: Margin of jungle, c. 3 miles from Tacama, Berbice. Description: (sometimes c. 20ft high) Axis c. 12ft. high, with 5 alternating, terminal bracts enclosing light brown and cream flowers. Bracts, leaf sheaths, petioles and blades glaucous. Economics: Blade c.7ft long and 2ft across, petiole about 7ft long. Bracts brown at fruiting stage. Herb. Hort. Bot. Reg. Kew.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029655
modified: 1993-10-05 00:00:00
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Queensland, Australia, Australasia
ScientificName: Canna indica
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cannaceae
genus: Canna
specificEpithet: indica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Melbourne 1888. F. Lahey & Sons, Registered Trade Mark Arrowroot, Pimpama, Queensland.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029664
country: Paraguay
countryCode: PY
locality: Paraguay, Southern South America, Southern America
ScientificName: Canna indica
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cannaceae
genus: Canna
specificEpithet: indica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Coleccion de Vegetales utiles Sud-Americanos. Dr. Domingo Parodi, Buenos Aires Diaforetina (?)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029668
modified: 2006-02-27 15:36:45.397000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Asia Temperate
identifiedBy: Tang Chen-zi
ScientificName: Canna
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Cannaceae
genus: Canna
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Purchased by museums staff in London W1. China national native produce & animal by-products import & export corporation, Kwangtung branch Shekki office. 8oz pack was 30p.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029670
modified: 2019-07-18 11:24:21.587000
ScientificName: Ananas comosus
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Ananas
specificEpithet: comosus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Purchased by Museum staff in west London. Used in grilling, roasting, barbecuing meat of any sort. Information on packet. 36 pence for 31 grams. Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029673
modified: 2006-08-24 14:34:22.483000
ScientificName: Ananas comosus
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Ananas
specificEpithet: comosus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Prepared from pineapple leaves worked or decorticated without water by the fibre extracting machine of JJ Weicher. The white fibre was worked in the same way but afterwards washed by hand.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029674
modified: 2006-08-24 15:28:52.683000
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: Moluccas, Ambon, (Amboina), Indonesia, Malesia, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Ananas comosus
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Ananas
specificEpithet: comosus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A sample of thread from the fibres of the pineapple leaf, and same as No 7in case 110 but not waxed, being in its raw state.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029675
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Tamil Nadu, North Arcot, Madras, India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Ananas comosus
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Ananas
specificEpithet: comosus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Presented by the Reporter on Economic Products to the Govt. of India. Registration No. 16792  File No. XXII


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029678
country: Singapore
countryCode: SG
locality: Singapore, Malesia, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Ananas comosus
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Ananas
specificEpithet: comosus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Prepared 10 sept 1924 by Mr W Whuman (?) of  ? Estate for comparison with Ceylon fibre prepared at the same time.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029679
modified: 2007-06-15 12:06:29.213000
country: Singapore
countryCode: SG
locality: Singapore, Malesia, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Ananas comosus
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Ananas
specificEpithet: comosus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fibre of the Pineapple grown at Singapore cleaned by Deaths New Machine. A large consignment exactly similar to this was recently sold in London at # 56 Per ton.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029684
modified: 2019-07-18 11:21:09.110000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Tamil Nadu, Madras, India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Ananas comosus
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Ananas
specificEpithet: comosus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Presented by the Reporter on Economic Products to the Govt. of India Registration No 16792.2  File No XXII Exhibited in  Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029689
modified: 2013-09-13 11:09:45.920000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Asia Temperate
ScientificName: Ananas comosus
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Ananas
specificEpithet: comosus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No 1 - Leaves of a pineapple bush 5 miles from Hoihow, said by the natives to be exactly the same as the plant from which the hemp is manufactured at Munshio or Wen chang.   No 2 - Leaves of pineapple of Munshio, or Wen chang cultivated specially for its hemp, but the fruit of which is eaten and sold as ordinary pineapples.  Natives say this is the same as No 1 and as No 3. Brought by special courier from Munshio.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029691
modified: 2006-08-23 17:09:31.920000
country: Jamaica
countryCode: JM
locality: Jamaica, Caribbean, Southern America
ScientificName: Ananas comosus
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Ananas
specificEpithet: comosus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Largely cultivated everywhere in the West Indies for supplying to the American market.  A large quantity of leaves might be available annually for fibre.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000000297
modified: 1994-02-01 00:00:00
country: Guyana
countryCode: GY
locality: Guyana, Northern South America, Southern America
ScientificName: Duguetia quitarensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Annonaceae
genus: Duguetia
specificEpithet: quitarensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Wood close, tough and elastic, excellent for gig-shafts, and when small for whip-handles, fishing rods etc. The Indians use it for arrow points. A decoction of the bark is stimulant and sudorific British Guiana


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029701
modified: 2019-02-21 10:51:15.117000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Locality revised 2019
ScientificName: Bromelia magdalenae
scientificNameAuthorship: (André) C.H.Wright
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Bromelia
specificEpithet: magdalenae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source: Pita fibre, string and cord Bromelia Magdalenae (Andre) C.H.Wright Colombia 37.1929 Messrs Pitales Ltd.  Accepted name (2019): A.magdalenae (André) André ex Baker Notes updated 2019


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029702
modified: 2003-11-05 09:52:04.470000
country: Belize
countryCode: BZ
locality: Belize, (British Honduras), Mesoamerica, Southern America
ScientificName: Bromelia magdalenae
scientificNameAuthorship: (André) C.H.Wright
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Bromelia
specificEpithet: magdalenae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mr Taylor agrees that this and the two other specimens are B m. the name under which he is growing the original plants recd. from Br. Honduras. See Letter book XV p.60, letter N0 118.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029703
modified: 2019-02-21 11:09:34.070000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Locality revised 2019
ScientificName: Bromelia magdalenae
scientificNameAuthorship: (André) C.H.Wright
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Bromelia
specificEpithet: magdalenae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:1) Fibre of 'Pita del Apon' Bromelia magdalenae (Andre) C.H.Wright Colombia 10.1916 M.T.Dawe. See letter 82,1916.Z.p.150. (see Dawe journey, Magdalena River, Colombia, p.30). 2) Mr. Holland, Pita del Opon Bromelia? Dawe Fibre at museum. There is nothing amongst Dawe's herbarium specimens to connect with this. C.H.O. 27-1-19 Accepted name (2019): A.magdalenae (André) André ex Baker  Notes updated 2019


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029706
modified: 2019-02-21 11:10:19.393000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Locality revised 2019
ScientificName: Bromelia magdalenae
scientificNameAuthorship: (André) C.H.Wright
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Bromelia
specificEpithet: magdalenae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source: Pita fibre (26A July 8th 1920) Fom Herbarium Dawe. Bromelia Magdalenae see Kew Bull. 1923 10.267 J.H.H. 18x23  Accepted name (2019): A.magdalenae (André) André ex Baker Notes updated 2019


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029707
modified: 2019-02-21 10:52:26.360000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Locality revised 2019
ScientificName: Bromelia magdalenae
scientificNameAuthorship: (André) C.H.Wright
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Bromelia
specificEpithet: magdalenae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cloth plus yarn. Cloth 7 x 7 from 10 lea warp and 25 lea weft.  Pita line yarn untreated. 37/1929  Accepted name (2019): A.magdalenae (André) André ex Baker Notes updated 2019


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029708
modified: 2019-02-21 10:53:10.687000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Locality revised 2019
ScientificName: Bromelia magdalenae
scientificNameAuthorship: (André) C.H.Wright
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Bromelia
specificEpithet: magdalenae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source: 'Pita' fibre, Bromelia Magdalenae C.H.W. Colombia. 41-1923 Pitales Ltd. London   Accepted name (2019): A.magdalenae (André) André ex Baker Notes updated 2019


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029709
modified: 2019-02-21 10:51:45.760000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Locality revised 2019
ScientificName: Bromelia magdalenae
scientificNameAuthorship: (André) C.H.Wright
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Bromelia
specificEpithet: magdalenae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source: Hauk of Pita Fibre yarn Bromelia Magdalenae C.H.H. Colombia Messrs Pitales Ltd. 37/1929  Accepted name (2019): A.magdalenae (André) André ex Baker Notes updated 2019


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029710
modified: 2019-02-21 11:10:47.970000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Locality revised 2019
ScientificName: Bromelia magdalenae
scientificNameAuthorship: (André) C.H.Wright
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Bromelia
specificEpithet: magdalenae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source: Leaves of 'Pita del Apon', Bromelia Magdalenae C.H.W. Colombia 10-1916 M.T.Dawe, Esq.  Accepted name (2019): A.magdalenae (André) André ex Baker Notes updated 2019


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029714
country: Jamaica
countryCode: JM
locality: Jamaica, Caribbean, Southern America
ScientificName: Bromelia pinguin
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Bromelia
specificEpithet: pinguin
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Common Pinguin (Bromelia pinguin) sometimes called wild pineapple of the West Indies. It is the common fence (?) plant of the plains & covers hundreds of acres of uncultivated lands in the hottest and driest districts of Jamaica.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029718
modified: 2017-11-28 16:58:33.690000
country: Paraguay
countryCode: PY
locality: Paraguay, Southern South America, Southern America
ScientificName: Bromelia serra
scientificNameAuthorship: Griseb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Bromelia
specificEpithet: serra
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Bag made of Caraguata fibre, containing a quantity of fibre in the rough, retted but not combed stage. Item conserved by the Hampton Court students, 1994


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029724
modified: 2003-11-12 16:28:48.983000
country: Mexico
countryCode: MX
locality: Mexico, Northern America
ScientificName: Bromelia sylvestris
scientificNameAuthorship: Burm.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Bromelia
specificEpithet: sylvestris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fibre from Bromelia sylvestris. This sample has been hand drawn, but although it represents the coarse fibre perfectly it does not give the finer ones.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029725
modified: 2016-12-12 16:57:21.123000
country: Mexico
countryCode: MX
locality: Mexico, Northern America
ScientificName: Bromelia sylvestris
scientificNameAuthorship: Burm.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Bromelia
specificEpithet: sylvestris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Office of Fibre Investigations U.S. Department of Agriculture Official Business. Penalty for private use $ 300. Samples sent in separate wrapper. Recieved by Dept 1869. From J. Mcleod Murphy, Harlem, New York. Leaves and fibre, said to have  been derived from Bromelia sylvestris in Mexico 'Leaves sundried by Squier' The teeth have been apparently removed. D. Morris 11/09/1896.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029727
modified: 2016-11-22 15:59:32.690000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Para, Santarem
ScientificName: Bromelia
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Bromelia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  43 Magucion ?? Twine. Fibre of Curana and rope made from it.  Source: Spruce, R. (1855) Domestic Uses. Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic uses (pp31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p52.: Fibre of the leaf made into twine and strong cord.  Hammockropes made of it last 4- 8 years if smeared with musici.  On Rio Negro I have seen fiddle strings and guitar strings made of it.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029728
modified: 2019-01-16 15:49:00.860000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Locality revised 2019
ScientificName: Bromelia
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Bromelia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Leaf and small sample of fibre from the United States of Colombia, Central America. Valued in its present state at #20 per ton but if properly prepared might fetch #28. Probably a species of Bromelia. Fibre agrees nearest to that in ? labelled Pita fibre, Bromelia Pita New Guinea (or New Grenada). Purdie. D. Voelcker, RHS. Sc. Comm.   Near B Pinguin.  Large bulbous mass of leaf bases with young spiny leaves in centre.  (Picture to illustrate).


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029729
modified: 2008-02-19 15:14:51.870000
country: Belize
countryCode: BZ
locality: Belize, (British Honduras), Mesoamerica, Southern America
ScientificName: Bromelia
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Bromelia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mr Howes enquiry of Herb, if fruit received had been identified, not named in Mr Sampsons Report, May 1929


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029730
modified: 2003-11-05 09:52:36.310000
country: Belize
countryCode: BZ
locality: Belize, (British Honduras), Mesoamerica, Southern America
ScientificName: Bromeliaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Juss.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Reported to be valued by Mr Wrigglesworth at #50 a ton and if imported would be used for string. 12 Jan 1929.  Partially decorticated? by machine.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029731
modified: 2019-02-27 12:54:15.583000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Huila, Timana Locality revised 2019
ScientificName: Guzmania
scientificNameAuthorship: Ruiz & Pav.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Guzmania
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source: Fruits of Caraguata sp. Timania, Colombia Col. F.C.Lehman 22.12.1882 62.1907 F.C.Lehman   Determination to species level (2019) Notes updated 2019


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029732
modified: 2005-07-11 15:34:30.420000
country: Trinidad and Tobago
countryCode: TT
locality: Trinidad-Tobago, Trinidad, Caribbean, Southern America
ScientificName: Catopsis nutans
scientificNameAuthorship: (Sw.) Griseb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Catopsis
specificEpithet: nutans
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Nest composed largely of seeds of Catopsis, made by Little Collared Swift, Paenyptila cayanensis Gmel. This is catopsis of Mez's monograph rather than Tillandsia. Entry-book source:  J H Hart esq Trinidad. Birds nest composed almost entirely of the seeds of Catopsis nutans , Gris. (Bromeliaceae). Sent as affording information on the subject of seed distribution. The name of the bird is not known & the bird has not been seen. The nest was attached (see diagram in entry book) Since determined by Mr Hemsley to be Tillandsia sp. & not Catopsis JRJ.?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029735
modified: 2007-09-14 09:59:21.447000
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Southern America
ScientificName: Neoglaziovia concolor
scientificNameAuthorship: C.H.Wright
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Neoglaziovia
specificEpithet: concolor
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sample of fibre, S Edge, research chemist, Wiggins Teape and Co, Glory Paper Mills, Wooburn Green, Bucks.  Fibre from pineapple family.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029739
modified: 2007-10-02 12:36:41.410000
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
ScientificName: Neoglaziovia
scientificNameAuthorship: Mez
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
genus: Neoglaziovia
locality:
Bahia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil, Southern America, North Northeast Bahai, Boa Vista, San Francisco District


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029745
modified: 2019-02-21 11:08:40.037000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Locality revised 2019
ScientificName: Bromeliaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Juss.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Bromeliaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source: Sample of 'Fibra de Pinuela'. 26A/1920. The fibre of one of the Bromeliaceae. L.A.B 4.4.27  Notes updated 2019


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029752
modified: 1993-11-18 00:00:00
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Western Australia, Australia, Australasia
ScientificName: Anigozanthos manglesii
scientificNameAuthorship: D.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Haemodoraceae
genus: Anigozanthos
specificEpithet: manglesii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A.manglesii - large flowers. A.bicolor - small flowers. Macrofidia fumosa Drum.  with black hairs.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029754
modified: 2005-07-27 16:07:05.217000
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Australia, Botanic Garden Melbourne, Australasia
ScientificName: Antholyza
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Iridaceae
genus: Antholyza
occurrenceRemarks:
Note source:  Label gave name as being 'Antholyza flava Red' but this name was never published, so is not recognised.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029768
modified: 2006-02-14 12:07:04.800000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Jammu-Kashmir, Kashmir, India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical
identifiedBy: Stoker Dr
ScientificName: Iris ensata
scientificNameAuthorship: Thunb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Iridaceae
genus: Iris
specificEpithet: ensata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Rope made of Iris sp, leaves called 'Krisim' in Kashmir & specimen of plant sent is Nr 34 (?)  Oct 14 1875 Srinagar  Dr Aitchison. Leaves of Iris sp of which rope for boats is made, by Kashmir boatmen (?) by / and tinting the dried leaves.The plant is No 34 - sent to Kew ? Oct 14 1875. Iris rope from Kashmir Iris ensata, Dr Stoker. Rathomines (?) Dublin


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029776
modified: 2005-07-05 15:48:43.610000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Jammu-Kashmir, Banks of Jhelum, Kashmir, India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Iris ensata
scientificNameAuthorship: Thunb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Iridaceae
genus: Iris
specificEpithet: ensata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herb. No. 91. Recd. June 7th 1894. Iris ensata employed for rope. Kashmir 1893. Roots of Iris with purple petals Herb. No. 240. Battledore shape. Kashmir 1893. ??? label. Required for museum confirmation of first species and specific nameof second. J.R.J. 20/7/94. Staff did this collection. There were two Irises No. 8 Iris Aitchison Baker No. 4 Iris sp?sia L. The two numbers on the other side cannot therefore be identified. J.R.J.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029788
modified: 1993-10-28 00:00:00
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Jammu-Kashmir, Kashmir, India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Iris
scientificNameAuthorship: Tourn. ex L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Iridaceae
genus: Iris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Roots of Iris with purple ?? petals (Rest unreadable). Aroma of Orris root. Herb. No. 240. Recd. june 7th 1894.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029794
modified: 2005-07-28 17:55:19.810000
country: Uganda
countryCode: UG
locality: Uganda, East Tropical Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Moraea
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Iridaceae
genus: Moraea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter dated Sept 23 1922 (re-submitted to Director Sept 26 1922 - 1st copy mislaid)  Major Foster, acknowledge the receipt of his letter of the 8th ultimo and in reply to say that the specimens submitted for identification appear to be the corms of a species of Moraea a genus of Iridaceae usually regarded as being poisonous to cattle.  The species cannot be determined without flowers; but if these could be supplied he would be pleased to examine them with a view to giving the specific name. Letter 415. 1922: XIV p.297.  Major AN Foster , Box 40, Mbale, Bukedi District, Uganda 08/08/1922 recd. Sept 16 1922 - said by natives to have posionous & fatal effects upon cattle.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029795
modified: 2010-09-02 17:00:27.883000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Romulea
scientificNameAuthorship: Maratti
kingdom: Plantae
family: Iridaceae
genus: Romulea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Grows wild in most parts of South Africa - about one foot from the surface and contains considerable nourishment either for a man or horse, when short of game, the bushman will subsist for months together upon little else.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029797
modified: 1994-01-20 00:00:00
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Boophone disticha
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.f.) Herb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Amaryllidaceae
genus: Boophone
specificEpithet: disticha
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Recieved from S.Africa  Messrs Ed. Davis & Co, # Fen Court, E.C. See letter 146,  for information on B.disticha see Amaryllidaec Corer (?)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029801
modified: 2010-05-06 13:17:12.180000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
ScientificName: Boophone disticha
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.f.) Herb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Amaryllidaceae
genus: Boophone
specificEpithet: disticha
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  References to articles on Boophone disticha Herb in Bot Mag 2578 1. Revue Horticole Ser IV Vol VI (1857) p.31  Haemanthus toxicarius Thunt. 2. Botanical Register Vol VII t.567 (1821)  Brunsrigia toxicaria, illustration, description and useful notes. 3. Kew Reports (1880) p.53, Poison Bulb of South Africa Buphane (sic) toxicaria. 4. North Gallery Official Guide (1892) p.60 Buphane toxicaria 5. Fl. Trop. Africa Vol VII p.392 (1898)  Buphane distichia (description only) 6. Bot Magazine sub.t.2578 (description only) 7. Kew Index Buphane toxicaria Herb. = B. disticha Herb. See also Amaryllidaceae Cover. J.H.H. Dec 18 1903.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029820
modified: 1993-10-22 00:00:00
country: Italy
countryCode: IT
locality: Italy, (Leghorn), Livorno, Southeastern Europe, Europe
ScientificName: Iris florentina
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Iridaceae
genus: Iris
specificEpithet: florentina
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  1. Dentaroli; 2. Palling; 3. Quadrette; 4. Gruno colorato; 5. Gruno naturale; 6. Frantumi 7.Raspatura ? 8. Polvere impalpabile.  Nov 26th 1901 See report on Orris root Diplomatic & Cons. Reports No 2637 (annual series) June 1901 Leghorn.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029833
modified: 1996-02-08 00:00:00
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Asia Tropical, Ganeshkind Botanic Garden
ScientificName: Agave americana
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: americana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Percentage of dry fibre to leaf 1.69. One man can prepare 21 ibs of dry fibre in a week.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029852
modified: 1996-02-09 00:00:00
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Falmouth, No 4 Florence Terrace
ScientificName: Agave cantala
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: cantala
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fibre prepared by Death's machine from a plant growing in the open air. 7/12/88. Not entered in book.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029854
modified: 2007-01-18 16:07:10.940000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: Northern America, Southeastern USA, Florida
ScientificName: Agave decipiens
scientificNameAuthorship: Baker
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: decipiens
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cleaned by Van Buren Machine No 2 see letter Exp. fibre factory US Dept. Agric. Cocoanut Grove, Dade Co. Florida. Fibre from leaves of False Sisal Hemp.  From Sands Key, cleaned by C.R.D. on Van Burens machine, whitest fibre doused in water an instant.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029856
modified: 2006-11-13 16:35:16.253000
country: Belize
countryCode: BZ
locality: Belize, Southern America, Mesoamerica, British Honduras
ScientificName: Agave fourcroydes
scientificNameAuthorship: Lem.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: fourcroydes
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From Death & Ellwood, Engineers, Albert Works.  8 1/4 ozs. fibre from four leaves weighing 14 3/4 lbs. About 3 1/2 % About 4ft 9ins. long, brand strong rope making fibre, coarser than Henequen, well cleaned and good colour.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029859
modified: 2006-11-27 11:24:42.620000
country: Belize
countryCode: BZ
locality: Belize, Southern America, Mesoamerica, (British Honduras)
ScientificName: Agave fourcroydes
scientificNameAuthorship: Lem.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: fourcroydes
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Four feet, yellowish, fair, strenght, clean, finer than Henequen suitable for binder twine. Report by Wigglesworth, 82 Fenchurch St. Valued by Messrs. Ide & Christie Nov. 12 1894 - #17 to 18 per ton. 'Good style & quality value to day #16 to #17 per ton.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029860
modified: 2006-12-11 11:28:10.257000
country: Trinidad and Tobago
countryCode: TT
locality: Trinidad-Tobago, Southern America, Caribbean, Trinidad, Botanic Garden
ScientificName: Agave fourcroydes
scientificNameAuthorship: Lem.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: fourcroydes
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Report by Messrs. Wigglesworth & Co. 82. Fenchurch Street E.C. 26/09/1918  Four feet long, white, strong, equal East African, glossy round fibre, well cleaned. Rope from it especially good quality and colour.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029879
modified: 2019-02-21 10:50:37.760000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Locality revised 2019
ScientificName: Agave macrantha
scientificNameAuthorship: Tod.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: macrantha
occurrenceRemarks:
Label Source: Rope of Magai fibre Agave micrantha Salm-Dyck New Granada Mr Purdie  Notes updated 2019


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029881
modified: 2006-07-03 15:52:01.303000
country: Jamaica
countryCode: JM
locality: Jamaica
ScientificName: Agave morrisii
scientificNameAuthorship: Baker
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: morrisii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Keratto fibre - Very abundant on rocky hills in Jamaica. Leaves 5 to 6 feet long about 1 foot broad each weighing to 10 to 15 lbs. Fibre extracted with difficulty owing to hardness of substance of leaves and caustic nature of the juice. The latter yields a vegetable soup which may be used in salt water.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029882
modified: 2006-07-03 16:13:14.613000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Kew, Botanic Gardens
ScientificName: Agave rigida
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: rigida
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter M.225-32.  Larmuth & Bulmer Ltd, Todleben Iron Works, Unwin St, Salford, Manchester. Dated 18th March 1932.   Dear Sir, We thank you for your favour of the 16th instant, and also for the six sample leaves received by us. We much appreciate your kindness in this matter, and we are enclosing herewith a sample of the A.rigida Var leaf extraction and also a sample of the Agave sisalana, which in this particular case was too small for the large machine which has been designed in this particular case for the sisal.  We thought you would like to have these samples to show what this new machine can do.  The fibre, as sent by you, is exactly as delivered from the machine, no brushing or combing whatsoever having been done.  Signed FM Larmuth(Larmuth & Bulmer Ltd) A letter dated 14 March to Curator asking for 1/2 dozen sisal leaves they stated 'We have been manufacturing a patent sisal decortication machine on behalf of the patentee Mr John Coor (?) who we understand knows you personally. Wehave the machine now completed in our works ready for tests and Mr Cook has asked us to write to you to see if it is possible to forward  to us say 1/2 a dozen sisal leaves so as to try out the machine to prove its suitability.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029890
modified: 2009-03-18 11:28:55.930000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Poona, Botanic Gardens
ScientificName: Agave sisalana
scientificNameAuthorship: Perrine
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: sisalana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Report of Messrs Ide and Christie, 3.1.99.  Good bright look, Cleaned value 28 per ton. Cleaned by Woodrow's machine, at College of Science.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029892
modified: 2006-11-10 15:33:48.273000
ScientificName: Agave sisalana
scientificNameAuthorship: Perrine
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: sisalana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Imported into Russia and used as a bath sponge. Vilbouchevitch, 10, Rue Delambre, Paris (XIV Arr). Ide & Christie, 72, Mark Lane, London - Your sample of sisal hemp is poor specimen - was probably grown in the Bahamas


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029904
modified: 2013-04-15 16:10:22.167000
country: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
countryCode: VC
locality: St Vincent
ScientificName: Agave sisalana
scientificNameAuthorship: Perrine
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: sisalana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  2 samples.  1. True Sisal Hemp from Kew.  2.  2 separate pieces.  From St Vincent Plant. a. From a plant found at Clesemtey Village, Leeward Coast, St Vincent, 27.08.1890. b. From one cut of a batch of 350 Agave rigida plants found growing near Cillinqun, St Vincent on 22.08.1890.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029909
modified: 2006-06-12 16:16:05.517000
ScientificName: Agave sisalana
scientificNameAuthorship: Perrine
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: sisalana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No 1 Recd. March, from the Expl. fibre factory US Dept. Agric., Cocoanut Grove, Dade Co, Fla. Fibre from smooth leaved sisal hemp, Indian key. Cleaned by C.R.D. on Van Buren machine. The sample is unwashed, as delivered from machine


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029912
modified: 2006-05-22 11:38:47.153000
country: Philippines
countryCode: PH
locality: Philippines, Manila
ScientificName: Agave sisalana
scientificNameAuthorship: Perrine
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: sisalana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From the Bureau of Agric. Manila. Feb 10th 1906. to Director - I have the honour to forward you by mail two packages one of which contains a mature leaf and two small leaves of the so called Philippine magney plant, the other several flowers, a number of bulbils and a sample of fibre of the same plant These leaves and flowers were taken from plants growing about 4 miles from the city of Manila. At the time they were secured I cut 12 mature leaves from two plants growing in what was little more than beach sand. The dimensions of these leaves varied as follows; weight from 25 to 31 ozs., length from 5ft 8 1/2 inc to 6ft 5 inc; width at base from 2 1/2 to 3 inc., width at widest part from 4 to 4 1/2 inches; thickness at base about 1 inc., lenght of marginal teeth about 3/16 of an inch; distance between marginal teeth from 3/4 to 1 1/4 inches, lenght of terminal spine from 3/8 to 5/8 inc. We are very desirous to learn if this is the same plant as that identified at Kew some years ago as A.vinipara.  Thanking you for any information that you may give us in regard to this question I am Sir ..... HJ Edwards, Fibre Expert, Bureau of Agric. Note - This is the same plant as that recieved from A Gollam HM Consul at Manila July 17th 1891 and named A.vinipara by Mr Baker.  Signed Otto Stapf 23/03/1906.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029914
locality: New Guinea
ScientificName: Agave sisalana
scientificNameAuthorship: Perrine
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: sisalana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sent for report Aug. 10th 1908. See letter book p.74. 1908. Sample of Sisal Agave fibre from 3 years old plants, grown by Mrs English at Rigo, Port Moresby, New Guinea. Submitted by E. Ransen, 6 crosby Square, E.C. Aug. 1908.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029915
modified: 2006-05-22 10:56:52.563000
country: Turks and Caicos Islands
countryCode: TC
locality: Turks & Caicos Islands
ScientificName: Agave sisalana
scientificNameAuthorship: Perrine
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: sisalana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  On Her Majesty's Service, Colonial Secretary's Office. Specimen of 'pita' fibre (Agave rigida var. sisalana) from the Turks and Caicos Islands. Colonial Office despatch 17 Feb 1890.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029916
modified: 2006-05-22 11:57:21.590000
country: Ghana
countryCode: GH
locality: Gold Coast, Aburi
ScientificName: Agave sisalana
scientificNameAuthorship: Perrine
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: sisalana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sample of fibre grown and prepared at the Botanical Station, Aburi. Recd. May 26/97 sample sent to Messrs Ide & Christie Report of Messrs Ide & Christie May 1897 Agave rigida. Length and strength good colour dull white Value #13 to #14.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029917
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: Java
ScientificName: Agave sisalana
scientificNameAuthorship: Perrine
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: sisalana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Java sisal from Cattle show Agric. Hall Islington Dec. 10. 1929. J.H.H. United Ropeworks. U.K. Distributers The Quintin Nicol Co. 61 Nile St. Sunderland. Wm A. Stark. Made in Holland: Extra Prime Standard, Prime Standard and Prime Sisal.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029919
country: Bahamas, The
countryCode: BS
locality: Bahamas
ScientificName: Agave sisalana
scientificNameAuthorship: Perrine
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: sisalana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sample of Agave fibre from the Bahamas valued from #50 to #60 per ton for rope making.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029928
modified: 2019-07-23 11:41:56.067000
country: Cuba
countryCode: CU
locality: Cuba
ScientificName: Agave sisalana
scientificNameAuthorship: Perrine
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: sisalana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Hawser laid rope manufactured from Cuban Henequin (Agave rigida) Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition in Museum no.1, May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029932
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Ganeshkhind Botanical Gardens
ScientificName: Agave vivipara
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: vivipara
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Extracted/prepared by retting. Percentage of dry fibre to leaf 4.47. One man can prepare 22.5 lbs of dry fibre in one week. 1379.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029933
modified: 2006-05-09 17:25:49.133000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Saharunpore
ScientificName: Agave vivipara
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
specificEpithet: vivipara
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Agave fibre 'C' quality prepared by Dr E Suter Fibre Factory Coorla ? near Bombay. Bombay aloe fibre A. vivipara. Report by Messrs Ide & Christie 72 Mack Lane E.6. Dated 10.8.98. Aloe fibre- Bombay. Agave vivipara colour bright, good preparation, well effected, strength very fair, length good  27 per ton. Market high may fall to 22-20.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029938
modified: 2006-05-18 11:15:01.197000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: Natal
ScientificName: Agave
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  (Notes which refer to many items - not actually present - as follows): 1. Fibre of Agave no 7 from Mr Sim herewith. 2. Mr CW Wright, Mr Raffill and U.S. matched the leaf this morning with a large specimen in house No.5, which appears to bethe plant figured by Rose in Contrib. USA Nat Herb as A. atrorious, the chief agave of Mexico, which seem to be different from that of Kauruishi. No.7. is common throughout S Africa and as you may remember excited your interest when I mentioned that it produced no bulbils.  I have since my return examined many dry spikes and consulted many observers and am quite sure I am right in this regard to No. 7 & 8 but at the present no fresh spikes are available.  As this species No 7 is quite hardy throughout Natal and grows in every kind of situation it is possible that it may be found fit for fibre production.  I have smashed a leaf, and send under separate cover two samples of the fibre the rougher just as the beating left it, and the other after scraping somewhat, and would be glad to hear if the fibre is considered worth further attention. No 8 appears to be the same species as No 7 but with variegated though its hardiness is not the same as that on no 7.  The others are all more tender and do not stand in our upcountry districts, and are all taken from cultivated specimens. Extr. letter 320, 1907, TR Sim, Natal to Director 26/08/1907.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029940
country: Guyana
countryCode: GY
locality: British Guiana, Bot Gdns, Georgetown
ScientificName: Agave
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Near A. potatorum Zucc. Report from Messrs Ide & Christie, 17.11.1892.  4 leaves fibre weigh 1/3 oz. About 20 leaves to a plant.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029945
modified: 2004-07-07 16:51:05.530000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
locality: South America
ScientificName: Agave
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Agave
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Used for carrying coarse rock salt from  New Granada by way of the Apure to the Orinoco.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029949
country: Costa Rica
countryCode: CR
locality: Costa Rica
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This sample is coarser and harsher than most others of Cabuya fibre received. 8/11/1918 See Trelease  Annales du jardin de Buitenzorg.  Supple. 3 part 2  1910, p906


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029953
modified: 2006-05-22 14:45:43.903000
country: Jamaica
countryCode: JM
locality: Jamaica
ScientificName: Furcraea cubensis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Jacq.) Vent.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Furcraea
specificEpithet: cubensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Leaves 5 to 6 feet long, generally armed but sometimes quite free from prickles. Plant fairly common in Jamaica and  ?  be largely propagated  ??


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029958
modified: 2019-02-21 11:12:18.107000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Colombia
ScientificName: Furcraea gigantea
scientificNameAuthorship: Vent.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Furcraea
specificEpithet: gigantea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source: Cord of 'Fique' fibre, Furcraea gigantea Vent. Colombia. 16-1916. M.T.Dawe, esq.  Accepted name (2019): F.foetida (L.) Haw. Notes updated 2019


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029960
modified: 2006-07-24 15:55:40.737000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Ganeshkhind , Botanic Garden
ScientificName: Furcraea gigantea
scientificNameAuthorship: Vent.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Furcraea
specificEpithet: gigantea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Percentage of dry fibre to leaf 1.78, one man can prepare 21 lbs of dry fibre in one week.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029965
modified: 2006-07-24 16:23:26.090000
country: Ghana
countryCode: GH
locality: Gold Coast, Aburi, Botanic Gardens
ScientificName: Furcraea gigantea
scientificNameAuthorship: Vent.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Furcraea
specificEpithet: gigantea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Report of Messrs Ide & Christie May 1897 - length good, strength indifferent colour and preparation poor, value #12


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029967
modified: 2019-02-21 10:54:57.327000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Bogota D.C. Locality revised 2019
ScientificName: Furcraea gigantea
scientificNameAuthorship: Vent.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Furcraea
specificEpithet: gigantea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source: 1) 'Fique Fibre' Furcraea giganten Vent. British Leqatia, Bogota. Min 7. April Manch. 1930. 2) 'Fique Fibre! Furcraea gigantea Vent. Bogota, Columbia. March 1931. Min. of Agric.  Accepted name (2019): F.foetida (L.) Haw Notes updated 2019


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029974
modified: 2019-01-24 12:00:41.907000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Colombia
ScientificName: Furcraea gigantea
scientificNameAuthorship: Vent.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Furcraea
specificEpithet: gigantea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See letter 135, 1916. X.p164 See Kew Bull. No 7 1916 p.169 Accepted name (2019): F.foetida (L.) Haw.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029977
modified: 2019-02-21 11:12:46.273000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Colombia
ScientificName: Furcraea gigantea
scientificNameAuthorship: Vent.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Furcraea
specificEpithet: gigantea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fibre of 'Fique', Furcraea gigantea Vent. Colombia. 16-1916. M.T.Dawe, esq.  Accepted name (2019): F.foetida (L.) Haw. Notes updated 2019


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029979
country: Peru
countryCode: PE
locality: Peru, Andes
ScientificName: Furcraea macrophylla
scientificNameAuthorship: Baker
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Furcraea
specificEpithet: macrophylla
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fibre cleaned by hand from leaves of a Furcraea locally called Chuchao on the east slope of the Andes. Peru.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029981
modified: 2019-02-21 10:47:30.840000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Colombia
ScientificName: Furcraea
scientificNameAuthorship: Vent.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Furcraea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  1) Furcraea of. Sample of hand cleaned fibre from Colombia believed to be called Picta.CTS 8/11/18. 45/1918. Reb 17.1 2) 'PICTA' Fibre, Furcraea sp. Colombia. 45-1918. Messrs. Wigglesworth & co.   Notes updated 2019


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029982
modified: 2004-01-06 10:19:55.263000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The warp of ordinary linen Yarn, the weft of Tow Yarn, native dressed. C Thorne 16 Mark Lane E.C.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029983
modified: 2007-01-29 14:45:57.257000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Phormium - the large red flowered species, which is most common, and generally believed to be the true P. tenax.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029986
modified: 1998-06-12 00:00:00
country: Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
countryCode: SH
locality: St Helena
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Grown in St Helena. Fair length, fair strength, poor brownish colour, fairly clean, some runners? untouched and barky. Value #22-23 per ton. Report of Collyer & Co 141 Fenchurch Street.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029989
modified: 2007-01-19 10:24:11.207000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  In the first stage of preparation ('Muka'). Edward Gillman, Twickenham Agent for Tao Nui, a New Zealand Chief. Bark of the Hinau tree (Dicera dentata); used by the New Zealanders to prepare the flax for dying. Flax (Phormium tenax), prepared for dyeing by steeping in a strong decoction of the Hinau bark. Flax dyed black, by kneading and rubbing in black mud from a freshwater river. Flax partially disengaged from the leaf; also the shell (Kuku) used for the purpose. Flax in the first stage of preparation (Muka). Small cord made from the flax in the first stage of preparation. Flax prepared for weaving, by soaking it for two days in water, then twisting it into hanks, and beating it with a mallet on a stone. Mantles wove from flax.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029990
modified: 2004-01-02 11:57:53.257000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Flax prepared for dying by steeping in a strong decoction of the 'Hinau' bark for two days.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029992
modified: 2007-01-19 10:23:22.433000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Flax prepared for weaving by soaking it for two days in water, then twisting it into large hanks and beating it with a mallet on a stone.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029996
modified: 2006-05-19 13:08:28.127000
country: Argentina
countryCode: AR
locality: Argentina
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sacking made by J.B. Storey Manchester. With the fibre of Phormium tenax grown and stripped on the Parana-Uruguay Delta. Argentina. Black & white photograph showing flax growing. Mr Dallimore, Herewith a specimen of sacking material made from Phormium tenax fibre grown in the Argentine by A Espantosa who told me that he had an estate of 10,000 acres of this plant. Leaves of 10 to 12 feet long were common. See enclosed photo with the man standing in amongst the plants. His market is a localone as there is a great demand for strong string for binding corn sheafs. CPR 30/11/1927. Ref. No. 54/1927.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000029998
modified: 2007-01-29 14:45:35.717000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  N.B. This is a very inferior specimen, owing (as the native dresser ? informed me) to the flax of this species which grows about us here near the sea being remarkably destitute of parenchyma, so that it cannot be dressed well. Consesqently they never use the 'Warariki' which grows near the sea: that which grows inland is not so. WC.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000000003
recordNumber: 3692
modified: 1995-03-03 00:00:00
recordedBy: Whitmore TC, Newman MF, Surian
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: Kalimantan, Asia-Tropical, Malesia, Camp Rekut, Kuala Rekut, Busang, Kalimantan Tengah
eventDate: 1994-08-12 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 12/08/1994
identifiedBy: Newman Mark
ScientificName: Indorouchera griffithiana
scientificNameAuthorship: (Planch.) Hallier f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Linaceae
genus: Indorouchera
specificEpithet: griffithiana
occurrenceRemarks:
Lowland dipterocarp rain forest on steep hillside.  Gigantic woody climber (Proctor 4038).  Climbing stem 25cm diam., with massive branches within canopy.  At butt 15cm diam.  Big stem looping on ground then climbing after 40m.  Bark smooth whitish.  Stem used for flexible handles of adzes called belayong.  TCW 3692.  No duplicates


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030003
modified: 2012-05-10 15:21:29.137000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Surrey , Kew Gardens
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fibre of Phormium tenax from the 'hardy form' sent to Kew by W. Robinson, Gravetye in 1908. Mr Watson, the Director Dec.9th. 1908. Mr Hillier, The curator regrets that he can add no information re attes. Mr Hills took the leaves of Phormium from here and had it decory a machine he is interested in but could not give details. 8.1.09.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030007
modified: 2010-07-06 14:21:34.420000
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Woven by Messrs R & J Beales, North Copham, Norfolk.  The Warp Ordinary Linen Yarn.  The weft P tenax, spun by Messrs Dunbar Mc Master & Co, Ireland. The fibre prepared by C Thorne


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030008
modified: 2012-05-10 15:14:51.610000
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sheeting manufactured by Messrs R & J Beales,North Lopham, Norfolk. The warp of ordinary linen yarn, the weft of Phormium yarn spun by Messrs Dunbar McMasters & Co., Lurgan, Ireland. Fibre prepared by C Thorn, 16 Mark Lane E.C. July 22 1873.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030009
modified: 2006-02-16 10:19:43.150000
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  New Zealand fibre. Coarse sheeting, made entirely of New Zealand flax. The warp of long fibre, the weft of tow. The yarn spun by, and the cloth made under the superintendance of Mr A.K. Forbes, Arbroath. Jan 21st 1873.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030010
modified: 2019-06-18 11:53:55.780000
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Scotch Twilled Sheeting, Coarse Linen and Damask Towelling, made from New Zealand Flax. The yarn prepared from native dressed fibre, and the Cloth made under the superintendence of Mr A.K. Forbes, Arbroath. Presented by C. Thorn. Phormium fibre supplied by Dr Featherston, the Agent General for New Zealand. Jan 21st 1873.  Exhibited in Plants+People exhibition in Museum No.1, May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030011
modified: 2007-08-31 12:03:36.893000
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Light sacking, made from the tow of New Zealand Flax. The yarn spun by, and the cloth made under the superintendence of Mr A. K. Forbes, Arbroath. Presented by C. Thorn. Jan 21st 1873.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030012
modified: 2007-08-31 12:02:59.010000
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Two pieces of cloth, made from unbleached and bleached yarn, composed of 25 per cent of New Zealand Flax, and 75 per cent of Riga Flax. The yarn spun by A.K. Forbes, Arbroath. Cloth made by Messrs. E. Parker & Co. Dundee. Presented by C. Thorn. No.6. These fibres work well together.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030013
modified: 2007-08-31 12:05:39.320000
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The warp of ordinary linen yarn, the weft of Phormium yarn spun by Messrs Dunbar MacMaster & Co. Lurgan, Ireland. The fibre prepared by C. Thorn 16 Mark Lane E.C. The cloth woven by R & J Beales, North Lopham, Norfolk - London 22nd July 1873.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030014
modified: 2010-02-17 12:40:10.093000
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Manufactured by Messrs D Lorine ? & Sons, Pathhead Spinning Mills, Kirkcaldy. N.B. The warp linen yarn, the weft from tow yarn the native dressed Phormium.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030015
modified: 2007-08-31 12:03:20.797000
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Two pieces of cloth, made from unbleached and bleached yarn, prepared from New Zealand Flax, by A. K. Forbes, Hatton Mill, Arbroath, his first attempt to spin this fibre. The cloth made by Messers E.Parker & Co. Dundee their first attempt to weave this yarn.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030017
modified: 2019-03-14 11:08:41.683000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
'A hunk of cord - spun by hand (in former days) upon the bare thigh - a slow and painful labour - Phormium' WC


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030018
modified: 2019-06-18 11:53:08.540000
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sold in London at #41 per ton, in July 1869. Exhibited in Plants+People exhibition in Museum No.1, May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030019
modified: 2007-01-29 14:47:34
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
'Phormium: having dark-eged leaves, and much prized by the natives for its long and fine fibre (flax), and for the ease with which it is worked - a stout and large plant, nearly equalling Ph. tenax.'  WC


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030021
modified: 2007-01-18 14:50:19.773000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No. 1 is about 50 years old. No. 2 is more than 60 years, it was used for attaching to the small under aprons of girls. For Kew, native spun twine 50 years old! July 1895 Found in box minerals. Curious and unique specimen of cord or stringmore than 60 years old. See its history/Trans. N. Zealand Instit. Vol. XXIV p. 466. This has ever excited great interest, my little reel of it has been shown at all our Southern Exhibitions. (Extract from letter of W Colenso to Director dated Napier 19.8.96) No. 2 This specimen of cord I value highly - my little lot (a few more yards) I obtained from E. Cape Natives nearly 60 years ago (1837): no other European has ever seen it, I spared a yard of it to a foreign nobleman (tourist) a few years ago.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030022
modified: 1998-06-12 00:00:00
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Thomas Routledge Ford Works Sunderland. Prepared from the raw leaf without heckling. Leaf sent IR (?) by Dr Hooker from Kew Gardens


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030023
modified: 2010-02-05 13:04:27.590000
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Table cloth made entirely of native dressed New Zealand Flax by Messrs D.Lornie & Sons, Pathhead Spinning Mills, Kirkcaldy N.B.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030036
modified: 2012-05-10 16:41:20.880000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand, Hawkes Bay, Wairoa
ScientificName: Phormium tenax
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asphodelaceae
genus: Phormium
specificEpithet: tenax
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  These fibre kits are handmade by Maori women in Wairoa, Hawke's Bay. 'Kit' is the modern version of the Maori word 'kete', the old time Maori hold-all. These were made in a variety of shapes and sizes and utilised as food containers, both for storage  and eating from, as well as gathering food in. Today the Maori kit is still extensively used as a general purpose basket and with ordinary care your kit will give you years of wear.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030045
modified: 2006-04-10 15:33:29.470000
country: Jamaica
countryCode: JM
locality: Jamaica
ScientificName: Yucca aloifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Yucca
specificEpithet: aloifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Botanical Department 5.4.84. Dagger fibre completely naturalised in the West Indies. Leaves about 1.5 to 2 feet long, often shorter; they yield nearly 7 per cent of fibre which is easily extracted.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030056
modified: 2005-04-18 17:48:13.297000
country: Mauritius
countryCode: MU
locality: Mauritius, Botanical Garden
ScientificName: Yucca
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Yucca
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Makhotse the leaf of which the Buchanans make cordage and its fibre - the leaf springs straight up from the ground - thus generally under the shadow of a tree. Diagram included. The leaves were cut about the 28th of April on the Bothethe? River, and the fibre obtained at the lake in May 1863. T Banks?.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030059
modified: 2007-07-18 11:48:16.943000
ScientificName: Yucca
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Yucca
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sample of fibre believed to have been grown either in California or South Seas and likely to become an important element in the manufacture of twines (extract from letter) J.H.H. See letter 1915, IX p. 180.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030061
modified: 2007-06-18 15:53:35.163000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: California
ScientificName: Yucca brevifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: Engelm.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asparagaceae
genus: Yucca
specificEpithet: brevifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Something new, made of Yucca Palm, color, light, a perfect protection against rabbits, etc.  Is quicker put on than any other tree protection in the market with no strings to tie.  Ready for immediate use. Is open grained and allows free  circulation of air.  Can be readily taken off to spray the trees. Not affected by rain.  Letter to Yucca Manuf. Co., LA. Jan 25, 1895.  Dear sirs.  I think your Yucca tree wrappers, just received, an improvement on last year and the year before, and I am more than pleased with my experiments with them; in fact, in planting the remaining 200 acres of my orchard, I would not do without them. I experience these main and satisfactory facts; The protection to the tender bark the first year from the hot summer sun.  Protection from the rabbits. I notice that when loosing the wrapper after twelve months planted, the growth below or under the wrapper was very noticeably larger than just above the wrapper, and while the wrapper is porous and admitting the air, I find the fiber very strong and durable, and with care will do to be used after the second year on the trees first planted.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030065
modified: 1994-01-07 00:00:00
ScientificName: Vellozia
scientificNameAuthorship: Vand.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Velloziaceae
genus: Vellozia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A specimen left by Mr Allen for identification consists entirely of a compact mass of adventitious roots.  The lower parts of various arborescent sp of Vellozia, classified by Bentham and Hooker amongst the Amaryllidaceae, are clothed withadventitious roots having a structure v similar to that of which  Mr Allens specimen is composed.  Most sp  of Vellozia are native of Brazil but others occur in Africa and Madagascar.  There is little doubt that the specimen submitted for identification consists of the basal part of an arborescent sp of Vellozia.  A similar specimen from Africa, sent to the Jodrell Lab in 1919 by Prof. Oliver, was then identified by Mr Boodle (with the assistance of the late Dr Stapf) as Vellozia sp. Letter Book 660/1933.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030102
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Found in the Gardens, Kew, named in Herbarium W.Holland (15.viii.34) Found in waste paper basket by one of the gardeners


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030106
modified: 2005-05-03 16:47:02.763000
country: Philippines
countryCode: PH
locality: Philippines, Manila
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Previous auth. Huds. A Fucus common on the coasts of the Philippines which yields a capital jelly much used in Manila.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030115
modified: 2007-05-15 10:37:05.493000
locality: North Formosa
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Collected and sold for food. A. No. 138 Chinese name: Gloiopeltis ? Examined at Herb. by Mrs Sepp Aug. 13.04 J.H.H..


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030116
modified: 2008-02-05 14:24:50.040000
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Used in the treatment of natural silk. Glaeopeltis coliformis 'Hokkin' and Glaeopeltis sp 'Ohbanfu'. Letter for archiving. Dried Funory (Seaweed Glue) 1. Area of production.   Latitude 30 degrees to 35 degrees North.  Longitude 130 degreesto 140 degrees East. On the shores of the Japanese Islands of the Pacific Ocean. 2. When most luxuriant:  between May and July. 3. When collectable: between the end of June and August. 4. Used for: the treatment of natural silk. It makes a paste more excellent than any animal glues or vegetable paste, but production is naturally limited, and many qualities are weak in some points. Mrs Dickinson, Is it possible to identify the enclosed alga from Japan? Is it Glaeopeltis sp.? There is no hurry for it. F.N. Howes, Museum IV. 30.11.31. I have put a specific name to one of these, the other I am uncertain about. Evidently the two spp. commonly used in the preparation of gums are G. coliformis and G. tenax. There is an article on the subject in Bull. Imp. Inst. vol IV 1906 p. 141.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030119
modified: 2009-03-04 11:18:03.217000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  N O Algae. Fucus Amylaceus. Eng. Ceylon Moss Fr. Mouss de Ceylan Ger. Ceylonischer Moos Duk. Mos Tam. Kadal-pachchi Tel. Samudrapu-pachi Plocaria candida?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030120
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fucus encrusted with lime. Considered to be seaweed encrusted with lime; a Coralline (Sertularia plumosa) being parasitical upon it.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030130
modified: 2009-11-25 11:42:21.030000
locality: Sandy Point
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Dec. 16 or 17 1867. Box containing 19 glass jars of Fungi etc. from Sandy Point. Specimens with office Old Museum.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030132
modified: 2005-07-08 15:20:47.040000
country: Ireland
countryCode: IE
locality: West Coast of Ireland
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Also in box:2. Lithothamnion laevigatum Co. Isle off Donegal. 3. Lithothamnion laevigatum and L. lenormandi (Aresch.) Fosl.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030134
modified: 2008-01-24 11:27:14.743000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Plymouth Sound, Bovisand Bay - Rock pools
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Stone covered with species of encrusting calcareous algae; chiefly: Lithothamnion incrustans Fosl. and Lithothamnion polymorphum L.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030141
country: France
countryCode: FR
locality: France, Antibes, Alpes Maritimes
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herb. G Thuret. Dans les feutes des rochers battus par la mer. 31 December 1858. Tetraspore.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030146
modified: 1994-09-15 00:00:00
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Used for making a jelly mixed by masons with other substances for a cement for walls.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030153
modified: 2005-07-28 17:58:34.417000
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The article is imported under the names Agar agar or Ceylon mop, Plocaria candida.  In India a preserve is made of it.  The mop is first swollen by soaking then candied. It resembles preserved ginger.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030159
modified: 2005-07-28 17:56:44.807000
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Battersea through Imperial Institute (see letter 484/27)  See Algae cover for copies of letters JHH. ii.vii.29. Herb. Kew. 11.vii.27


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030162
locality: Yarkund
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Giler-pati, Laminaria saccharium, Trade Prod. of leh. (?) Piece compared in Herb. JHH Nov.30.1905 Specimen in two boxes.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030179
modified: 2005-07-11 16:42:32.673000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Brighton, Black Rock
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  E.ahlneriana, Typus III, cannot be certain since according to Bliding needs fresh material to distinguish from E.prolifera. Found on chalk


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030185
modified: 2005-08-19 16:37:44.683000
country: Ireland
countryCode: IE
locality: Ireland, County Clare, Corofin
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  These grow at the bottom of a lake near Corofin, County Clare Ireland. Obtained from there June 1919. With the compliments of Dr K.F. Lund, 8 Collingham Rd. Ack. J.H.H. 10 March 1920. Dear Sir, I have much pleasure in sending you two of the Corofin Moss Balls, which are interesting in that their roots appear to be entirely inside. I have not come across them elsewhere. It may interest you to know that I am an old pupil of Mr Rushlin Parker of Liverpool, who I fancy is your brother. If you meet him please remember me to him. Yours Truely.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030189
modified: 2010-06-29 15:51:46.977000
country: Peru
countryCode: PE
locality: Peru, Lima
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Received as Confera rivularis. Dr Dickie thinks it a var of Cladophora crispata. Roth.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030193
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  1. More or less steel grey. 2. Green. 3. '1' 4. '2' 5. '1' Mastigocoleus testarum Gleninagh, County Clare.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030199
modified: 2005-07-13 17:53:53.227000
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fronds and air bladders The longest vegetable known, having been acertained to be from 500 to 1500 feet in length.  It is a gigantic sea weed, a single leaf or frond of which is often 10 feet long, and more than a man can lift.  In some parts of Chile this plant is used for food by the poorer classes, being made into a very palatable soup. 226


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030204
modified: 2006-07-24 17:34:45.487000
country: Vietnam
countryCode: VN
locality: Annam
ScientificName: Algae
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cannot say what this is. I have kept a piece and if I discover will let you know. ADL 22.v.13.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030208
modified: 2006-07-24 17:36:25.843000
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Tasmania
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A kind of truffle; weight when fresh 25 lbs.  Sclerotial state of Polyporus mylittae  Cooke & Massee.  Aphyllophorales


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030224
modified: 2005-04-21 16:58:26.387000
locality: Tete Noir
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Specimen shows the middle stage of the attack.  Attacked by Frametes raciperda.  Starting from the Tete Noire.  Dec 30  1893. Parasite is adequately treated in Wards  Timber & Some of Its Diseases pp 142. 154. Prof F W Oliver, Botanical Museum.  University Colley OWB.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030236
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: England, Lincolns Inn (Notting Hill)
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Grown in darkness in a basement, 6, Ladbroke Terrace, New Court, Lincolns Inn  Notting Hill.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030259
modified: 2012-05-25 16:04:26.710000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Madras
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Edible. Presented by the Reporter on Economic Products to the Government of India. Registration no. 11978. File No. XXII Aphyllophorales


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030283
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: England, Surrey, Croydon
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From the inside of the roof of a church   Royal Horticultural Society. Diagram enclosed showing position of fungus


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030297
modified: 2006-05-19 12:24:07.087000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Nilgiris, Ootacamund Botanic Gardens
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See list India Cover Found on the ground at the base of a large trees in the Hoolikul Droog forest at an elevation of about 5,900 feet, Nilgiris on the 19th March 1903. Verified at Herb. June 28.1904  JHH Aphyllophorales


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030299
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Plymouth
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Formed on the surface of English Oak decking on a caisson. See letter 362,1924 HJ German


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030302
modified: 2006-09-06 09:51:27.920000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Punjab , Murree
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Collected in large quantities, dried and eaten by the natives of Murree, Punjab. Found upon the debris of leafy mould as the snow melted 15th April 1893 in large quantities.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030307
modified: 2005-07-04 15:03:00.733000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Cornwall, Wadebridge
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter - Dear Sir (Director Kew Gardens) Enclosed parcel fungi Sachnea (?) coccinea thinking you may find them interesting to your numerous visitors. Place a plate containing water, place moss in water and fungi on top of moss. Faithfully yours J Brown.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030309
modified: 2010-10-26 13:01:45.417000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Larva of the insect upon which the fungi grows it is called Hotete by the natives of New Zealand.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030320
modified: 2010-11-08 13:04:59.543000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Surrey, Nork Park
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From a beech tree at Nork Park 1827 The pileus is naturally coated with a resinous substance. Boletus iginanius ?? (Sowerby) Opuscular source:  Letter dated Friday Feb 29th 1827 - A specimen of a fungus, separated by Mr T Trevelyan from a beech tree was laid upon the table and the whole of its upper surface was covered by a layer of brown resinous matter, which extended a little way around the edge over the under surface.  When separated by a knife and examined it was found to be combustable with much flames and smoke and soluble in alcohol; insoluble in water; nearly tasteless and indeed to have all the general properties of resin. Journal of the Royal Institute March 1827 p.213  WCJ


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030335
modified: 2004-08-09 12:33:36.913000
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From which a type of Gamboge is obtained. Aphyllophorales Opuscular source:  Extract of letter from Mr JJ Humel, Yorkshire College, Leeds to Director dated Nov 19th 1897. Polyporus hispidus contains a yellow mordant colouring matter in moderate quanities but the colours obtained are not bright enough nor is the fungus sufficiently ?? in colour? ?? it of commercial value in export. P.hispidus yields a yellow substance corresponding with Gamboge yellow. It is insoluble in water but readily soluble in ether and alcohol.  It is abundant in the cell walls and cell coutegals (?) and also ?? on the surface.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030359
modified: 2006-08-24 09:28:19.470000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: England, Brentford, St Pauls Church
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Portion of a joist from beneath the floor of church showing progress of dry rot.  Nearly the whole of the joists were destroyed by this fungus in the space of 2 years.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030362
modified: 2006-09-25 16:31:35.343000
country: Poland
countryCode: PL
locality: Warsaw
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Consigned as dry fruit Opuscular source:  Letter dated 15.12.22 - Mr Dallimore, These are the fungi I mentioned sometime ago, which you may like for museum.  They are dried Boletus edulis as pre-prepared for sale on the continent.  They arrived in this country as part of a consignment from Warsaw scheduled as 'dried fruit' - and were stopped by the M.O.H. Dover as suspicious. EMW.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030372
modified: 2006-08-21 15:34:00.123000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Worth from 8 - 24 teals a catty (1 3/4 lbs). In Dr Henrys notes on Economic Botany of China he mentions (p.15) the edible fungus muerh as growing in the mountains of Obu peh.  These wood ears are worth about Hs 35 or $7.7 a picul (133 lbs)and are largely sold.  But among them there is found a white fungus called the white or silver wood ear which is worth from Hs 24 to Hs 8 a catty (1 1/3 lbs).  The wood ears are to a certain extent cultivated on decayed wood in the mountains and are gathered in by the farmers, but the white ears are said for the most part to be stolen by the workmen and disposed of surreptitiously in small parcels.  Whether or not the white ear is only an accidental variety of the wood ear.  I am unable to say, but the high price which it commands, seems to make it worthy of study and I should be glad to learn what it is determined to be.  It is one of the great delicacies of a Chinese dinner, and small parcels of it are sent as acceptable presents to the highest officials.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030376
modified: 2005-06-22 11:22:45.927000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Memo for Dr Harker (Parcel for Mr Lochnag on lease)  My dear Mr Harker, Mr Fink (?) has been dangerously ill and is just slowly recovering is trying a change of air for a few days, before he left home he requested one to write to you and send accompanying fungus.  He may be sufficiently well to write you by this mail. He should not I send this as explanation sympathizing with you in your trial and annoyance, Believe me dear Mr Harker Yours truely Mr T Kirk.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030378
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Hupeh
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mountains of Hupeh, China. Worth about 7 pounds 7 shillings a picul (133 lbs) Tulasnellales


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030382
modified: 2006-09-05 10:18:13.877000
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The young shoots become swollen, and are sold as food in Hanoi. In Japan the spores are mixed with pomade and used to colour thin eyebrows and for giving a bronze tinge to lacquer. Attacks young shoots of Zizania latifolia which become swollen and are sold as legumes under the name Nu-an in the market at Hanoi. The spores are also rubbed on the scalp when the hair is thin.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030391
modified: 2006-09-04 17:41:56.753000
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Found in oil casks, pans of fat, etc. when it attacks a pot of grease it very soon destroys it completely, flourishing with vigour and rapidity. Zygomycetes Price's Patent Candle Company Ltd. London


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030392
modified: 2006-09-04 17:51:19.780000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Kew Botanic Gardens
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Portion of panel and canvas covering from a room in the old Palace at Kew showing the effects of dry rot.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030399
modified: 2019-06-18 11:22:09.143000
ScientificName: Serpula lacrymans
scientificNameAuthorship: (Wulfen) J. Schröt.
kingdom: Fungi
family: Serpulaceae
genus: Serpula
specificEpithet: lacrymans
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Notes  in German on reverse Exhibited in Plants+People exhibition in Museum No.1, May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030497
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Ergotised ears of Ammophila arundinaria (L.) Link. Ergotised ears of Psamma areuaria R.??.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030501
modified: 2006-06-09 14:24:23.157000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Scotland
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Ergotised Glyceria fluitans (L.) R. Br. Letter describing examples of ergotised grasses from Scotland having flourished in the previous season, sent to archives.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030506
modified: 2010-06-08 16:40:25.603000
country: Mongolia
countryCode: MN
locality: Mongolia
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mongolians, Manchurians and Chinese In Proc. Imp. Acad. Toyko Xiii p.280, 1937. Note by Dr Dennis 4.1956 Carles WR - I send some mushrooms which are worth Fls 170 a picul. Inferior mushrooms of the same kind are worth Fls 90 a picul. These which are also preferred to by Dr Henry in the same passage as the 'wood ears' are sold in very large quantities, chiefly imported from Mongolia.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030516
modified: 2006-11-27 16:49:29.373000
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Wood stained green naturally by mycelium of small fungus - verdigris peziza - in this state the wood is used in the making of Tunbridge Ware.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030518
modified: 2016-12-15 13:41:39.660000
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030523
locality: Europe
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Found widely distributed over the globe growing on the trunks of trees, esp. on Elms. Prima prima franco KEHL p50 Kilo   fcs 110.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000003055
modified: 2006-05-22 15:13:15.067000
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Australia, New South Wales
ScientificName: Sloanea australis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Benth.) F.Muell.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Elaeocarpaceae
genus: Sloanea
specificEpithet: australis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A pinkish-coloured, close textured timber, becoming a light brown on exposure. It has no prominent figure, easily worked, suitable for cabinet work, interior joinery, mouldings, linings etc. The wide sap-wood which is not pronounced is very liable to attack by the Powder Post Borer. The tree sometimes has a very irregular bole, often deeply channelled, and not plentiful in commercial sizes. It occurs as a fair sized tree averaging a height of 80ft and 6ft girth, in the coastal brushes of New South Wales and Queensland. H = Moderately soft. W = 32 - 37 lb per cub. ft.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030566
modified: 2006-07-20 17:33:02.667000
country: Türkiye
countryCode: TR
locality: Asia Minor, Anatolia
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Manna from Asia Minor. At a late meeting of the members of the Royal Institution, Mr Faraday mentioned that he had received through our ambassador at Constantinople, a substance gathered from the ground in Anitolia in Asia Minor and calledby the natives Manna. It appears that it can only be procured from the earth in the morning after a heavy fall of dew; and as it covers the surface of the country the natives superstitiously believe that it falls with the dew.  The French physician who collected the specimen described it as not being of vegetable origin. This however turns out to be a mistake. The substance is in small rounded dark coloured masses about the size of a pea and speckled with small white spots. Mr Brown the eminent botanist has ascertained that it belongs to the family of Lichens although of unknown species.  Mr Faraday found on examination that independently of some insoluable matter and oxalate of lime, it contains the amylaceous principle lichenin, the solution in water acquiring a deep purple colour with iodine like that caused by this substance in a decoction of Iceland Moss. The natives make it into a kind of bread and eat it; but its nutritious properties like those of the tripe de roche of North America are of coursevery feeble; and although called Manna it has not the slightest relation to the inspissated vegetable juice known under that name. The following ingraving (see diagram), is enlarged to about 5 diameters. The white terminations of the prominences appear to be shields being borded in several by a semi translucent rim and the surface more or less depressed, though at first view they might be regarded as mere abrasions of the dark external coating exhibiting the chalk like substance of the interior. It is unlike any British species of Lichen but considering the circumstances under which it is found perhaps it approaches nearest to the genus Collema. From the London Medical Gazette, May 15th 1846.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030567
modified: 2006-07-20 15:37:07.053000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: Sierra Nevada, Veleta
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sanderson 9000ft alt Sierra Nevada. July 1847 Ride Schmr ? Sn. p. 65. (Ach. Coll p. 436) ? Rocks under which we slept for 5 days at Sanderson at the base of Veleta, Sierra Nevada 20-25th July 1847.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030568
country: Iran
countryCode: IR
locality: Persia, Bayazid, (Turkey inetsia ?)
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From the neighbourhood of Byazid. See Gardeners Chronicle for 1849, pages 581 and 611.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030569
modified: 2006-07-20 15:56:40.153000
country: Iran
countryCode: IR
locality: Persia
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Daily Express April 14 1932. Of Manna, 'Popcorn' from the skies. Mystery 'Gift' After Cattle Losses. Natives Joy. A sensation has been caused has been caused in South Africa by a shower of Manna on a farm near Vryheid in Natal. The circumstances are related by Mr Theunis Botha, a cousin of the great Boer leader, who awoke one morning to find a patch of wasteland about 700 yards long and 60 feet wide covered with a white substance resembling snow. Natives were in the midst of it, eating it greedily and stowing it in baskets. They regarded it as heavenly compensation for the destruction of their cattle by drought. Mr Botha collected some of the substance in a bottle and took it into Vryheid, 18 miles away, for examination. It was identical with that described in Exodus 16, verse 14  'And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing as small as the hoar frost on the ground'. Verse 16 adds a further description,  'And the house of Israel called the name there of Manna, and it was, like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.' Honey sweet- the samples Mr Botha produced looked like popcorn, with, here and there, flaky pieces. The colour was dead white,without any shine or gloss, and the Manna was slightly rough to the touch. The taste was exactly in accordance with the Biblical description - pleasantly honeysweet - and the little balls of Manna dissolved on the tongue like icing sugar. The fall of Manna was confined to the one small spot on Mr Botha's farm and on none of the farms nearby did it appear. It has been believed in the past that Biblical Manna was exuded from the Tamarisk tree but in this case the substance was found on a treeless veldt. According to report, a similar fall occurred in 1856 at the time of the battle at the Tugela between Cetewayo and his brother Umbulazi. It is a curious fact that although the oldest natives on Mr Botha's farm had never before seen Manna, they all ate it without hesitation as though knowing instinctively that it was a food which would do them no harm.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030570
country: Iran
countryCode: IR
locality: Persia
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Found on the sides of the mountains in Persia, and largely eaten by the poor in times of famine.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030571
country: Iran
countryCode: IR
locality: Persia
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Lichen esculenta - desert manna. Collected by Dr Rebout, winter 1857. Hospital Civil D'Alger - 2 May 1862


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030576
modified: 2005-06-08 17:57:31.603000
recordedBy: Kirk Dr
country: Malawi
countryCode: MW
locality: Lower Shire Valley
eventDate: 1861-06-11 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 11/06/1861
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Dr Kirk.  Portion of outer surface of stem of Borassus palm with lichen. Lower Shire Valley 11 June 1861


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030585
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Jack, Leiner u. Stizenberger, Kryptogamen Badens.  302.  grisea Korb. Syst p 281.  An schattigen alten Sandsteinmauern des Friesenbergs, Heidelberg August 1858.  Dr W Ahles.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030592
modified: 2007-03-20 11:18:53.503000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Imported from India.  Purchased at Goodeats, Ballards Lane, London N3. Det. DL Hawksworth.  Used in preparation of garam masala.  Contains atranorin and salazinic acid.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030593
modified: 2006-11-27 17:28:07.753000
country: Greenland
countryCode: GL
locality: Arctic Greenland
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This bountiful lichen occurs in such abundance as to render the cliffs perfectly crimson or orange even when viewed at a distance of several miles. Brought from the crimson cliffs under the name of red snow by fisherman - (Rest illegible)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030596
modified: 2006-11-27 17:31:31.473000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Berar and Central Provinces
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From Dr Walt's collection in Berar and C.P. Registration number 5652 File number XXII


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030613
modified: 2006-08-08 15:43:53.050000
country: Greenland
countryCode: GL
locality: Arctic Greenland
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Lichen growing on a whale bone which has evidently been cut for some purpose by the natives.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030616
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Liverwort of Herbalists Fries Bot. Lich Fl. Gt Britain, Leighton p.107 Peltides side Peltigera Pop. H. Blich     Lindsay 165 (?)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030628
country: Ecuador
countryCode: EC
locality: Ecuador
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Die Direktion des Botanischen Gartens/a la Direction du Jardin Botanique Letter 57,1921:XIV p.67 Botanischer Garten Zurich


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030632
modified: 2006-08-08 16:25:09.190000
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: South Australia, Coorong Lagoon
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A substance of the same nature as N'hangellite found near the Coorong Lagoon in S.Australia where it is deposited on the soil by the winter floods.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030633
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A natural product derived from a gelatinous Alga and a fungus including Diatoms, sand grains and other bodies. Boverton Redwood 4 Bishopsgate St London


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030645
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Litmus - used as an indicator for acids and alkalis. (Litmus + acid = red, Litmus + alkali = blue). Made in England


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030652
modified: 2006-08-03 15:56:36.280000
locality: Swansea, Bordeaux
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  On bark of Pit Prop, Pinus pinaster.  Obtained in Kings Dock, Swansea.  See Kew Bulletin 1914 p.248.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030659
modified: 2005-06-22 11:24:54.493000
locality: East Africa
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From the Banadin or parts North of the Equator vis - Brava Marka Magdelbo? picked on 4.12.71 - 1 1.5 per 35lbs.  Unpicked - $1 per 35lbs.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000003067
modified: 2006-05-22 10:53:21.227000
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Australia, New South Wales
ScientificName: Sloanea woollsii
scientificNameAuthorship: F.Muell.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Elaeocarpaceae
genus: Sloanea
specificEpithet: woollsii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A pale, brownish-coloured wood, frequently showing bluish or yellow discolourations. It is moderately close textured and easily worked, but is firm and tough. Although available in comparatively large quantities, it is not used extensively, since the wide sapwood is liable to borer destruction. It is used for flooring, lining, turnery, brush stocks, white lead casks and for drawer sides, etc., in cabinet work. Yellow carabeen reaches a height of about 120ft and 4ft diameter in the brush forests of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland. H = Moderately hard. W = 30 - 42 lb per cub. ft.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030679
modified: 2006-08-08 15:53:06.233000
country: Portugal
countryCode: PT
locality: Portugal
identifiedBy: Darbishire OV
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Portugese rock. Department of Botany, The University, Bristol, May 24th, 1921. Dear Boodle, The material sent me is in the one case undoubtedly Roccella tinctoria D.C. but the other is doubtful. Where does it come from? It is completely bleached and most resembles really a West Indian species. R. Gayana M Sg. I hope that will answer your purpose. If you want the doubtful (and poor) specimen named I will take it in hand thoroughly. Yours Sincerely, (Signed) O.V. Darbishire. L.A.Boodle, Jodrell Laboratory.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030680
modified: 2006-07-27 15:01:32.280000
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A subtropical lichen used as a dye from ancient times. Now used as a source of Litmus. Scales Brand, Made in England.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030685
modified: 2006-07-27 14:33:13.530000
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Used as a drug (stomachic) in Persia. Achundow refers this drug to Muscus arboreus and gives the Persian name as Dowalak and Karbasu and the Arabic name as Aschna. The Persian name Dowalah is applied to more than one kind of lichen since Dymock gives Parmelia kamtschadalis as the source of Dowalah of the Indian Bazaars (Ph. Ind. iii. 627). Some of the Parmelias are used as a dye, but the above drug from Hamadan gives no colouration with caustic potash. It is a whitish or grey coloured lichen in broken pieces. It has emollient and astringent properties, and is used in a bath or as a poultice. Locally it is given for stomach troubles. (C.) (K.B 1931. p. 336).


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030688
modified: 2006-07-27 15:02:10.993000
country: AN
countryCode: AN
locality: Curacoa
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter to Boodle from Darbishire 24.05.1921: The material sent me is in one case Roccella tinctoria but the other is doubtful.  Where does it come from.  It is completely bleached and most resembles a W. Indian sp. R gayana.  I hope that will answer your purpose.  If you want the doubtful and poor specimen named I will take it in hand thoroughly. Specimens from Portugal and Curacoa.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030702
modified: 2011-04-04 12:24:36.123000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Could this be the 'orchilla weed' sent from New Zealand by J.A. Smith, item 19 on p. 183 ofThe official catalogue of the Great Exhibition, 1851 (Second Ed.)? No other candidates found. Mark Nesbitt 4/4/2011.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030728
modified: 2007-02-01 16:12:56.140000
country: Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
countryCode: SH
locality: St Helena
ScientificName: Fungi
kingdom: Fungi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  24/11/1886.  OHMS  The Right Honourable, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Downing Street, London,  From the Governor, Saint Helena, W Gray Wilson.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030735
locality: South America
ScientificName: Lycopodium rubrum
scientificNameAuthorship: Cham. & Schltdl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Lycopodiaceae
genus: Lycopodium
specificEpithet: rubrum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Doslibras atum condinadum.  L. catharticum Hook. Examined by Mr. Wright, Herbarium June 11.1906.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030737
country: Malaysia
countryCode: MY
locality: Malacca
ScientificName: Lycopodium cernuum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Lycopodiaceae
genus: Lycopodium
specificEpithet: cernuum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  4 items:  1 is from Malacca, 2 = L. densum from Australia, 3 = L. dendroideum from North America, and 4 is from Ceylon (cernuum).


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030739
locality: Tropical America
ScientificName: Lycopodium dichotomum
scientificNameAuthorship: Jacq.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Lycopodiaceae
genus: Lycopodium
specificEpithet: dichotomum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  4 items:  5 = Lycopodium selago L (Temp. Cosmop.?) 6 = L dichotomum Sw. fromK Tropical America, 7 = L. densum Br from N.Zealand, 8 = L saururus Lam. from Andes & c.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030740
modified: 2025-09-10 11:11:27.487000
country: Sweden
countryCode: SE
locality: Sweden
ScientificName: Lycopodium clavatum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Lycopodiaceae
genus: Lycopodium
specificEpithet: clavatum
occurrenceRemarks:
Changed Donor from 'Christie H' to 'Christy, Henry' [21/12/2023 TvE]  1.	Oval coiled mat. 51 x 30cm. Plaited, plait c. 4cm width.  2.	Oval coiled mat. 63 x 40cm. Very similar to 30741.  EBN: 2.(-20.)1866 “The late H. Christy Esq” – Mats of Lycopodium.  Lycopodium Doormats  W. Plant lives  “poorer people in Sweden used to refer to this club moss as ‘mattel grass’ as they used the stems to weave doormats”.   Journal of Botany vol. 9 (1871) “One would scarcely expect to find L.C of much use as an economic plant, but besides the well known application of its inflammable spores for producing  artificial lighting and its use by the chemist for rolling pills in to prevent them sticking together, the plant itself makes excellent doormats, and for this purpose it is largely collected in Sweden. The mats are very elastic and dry readily.' J.R. Jackson.   Mentioned in W. Hooker 1861, The British Ferns. ‘In the North of Europe the peasantry weave them into doormats of a very useful description, of which samples may be seen in the Museum of the Royal Gardens of Kew. …artificial lighting upon the stage.’ Also – ‘used in in Sweden for making doormats, for which purpose its long wiry stems render it very suitable..’  Official Guide to the Kew Museums: A Handbook to the Museum of Economic Botany 1871. The Museum No.2. Room 8. Under fern order. No. 100g ‘Doormats of Club-Moss from Sweden’.   Notes by Ruth Stungo, transcribed by CJ.  


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030741
modified: 2025-09-10 11:14:11.487000
country: Sweden
countryCode: SE
locality: Frederikshall
ScientificName: Lycopodium
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Lycopodiaceae
genus: Lycopodium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Prepared and used in Sweden.  Said to wash very easily, the L recovering its elasticity when put in water.  Bundles of Lycopodium, plaited and held. 57cm diameter, 38.5cm height.  Coils approximately 4.5cm width, held by cord plaited fibre – split roots/ stem. Willow? EBN: 155.1856.2 Doormat of Lycopodium from Frederikshall. It will recover its elasticity upon being put into water. This one had been used several days in very dirty weather and was washed in a few minutes.   Notes by Ruth Stungo, transcribed by CJ.  


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030743
country: Italy
countryCode: IT
locality: Pavia
ScientificName: Equisetum hyemale
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Equisetaceae
genus: Equisetum
specificEpithet: hyemale
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The origin of the French word Prele, used in the kitchens for cleaning wooden spoons and platters.  The 12 rings sold for 5 cents = 1/2 ld.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030749
modified: 1994-09-15 00:00:00
ScientificName: Equisetum arvense
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Equisetaceae
genus: Equisetum
specificEpithet: arvense
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Letter A.18508/9 Dec 1908 - Mr Hillier, Sample of hay poisonous to cattle. The chief Petty Officer minutes on 24.xii quoting Scheraz that E.arvense is harmful to cattle; if forced on them they become emaciated and suffer from ptyalism.But horses can eat it without suffering from sickness. On the other hand Schwarz says that E.palustic is considered a good food for cattle. From  ?? Dr Stockman finds that the symptoms sometimes do come on very rapidly (a few hours) and are in some casescharacterised by inebriation and loss of control of the muscles. In more chronic cases there is obstinate diarrhoea. Dec 3rd 1908.  DP.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030754
modified: 2005-07-04 16:06:13.667000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand
ScientificName: Marattia fraxinea
scientificNameAuthorship: Sm.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Marattiaceae
genus: Marattia
specificEpithet: fraxinea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The rootstock of this fern is used by the Maoris as an article of food. The rhizome or rootstock of the New Zealand species is composed of irregular agglomerated mass of thick fleshy scales, each scale being formed by the enlargment of a stipe base, the stipe separating by an articulation above the swelling after the frond has performed its functions. Linn. Jour. XVI p.2 JHH 15.6.06.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000030766
modified: 2025-04-25 17:27:02.430000
country: Thailand
countryCode: TH
locality: Siam
ScientificName: Lygodium flexuosum
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Sw.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Schizaeaceae
genus: Lygodium
specificEpithet: flexuosum
occurrenceRemarks:
William Harrison (Horticultural Apprentice, 2025) - Described by his grandmother, this object is used as condiment caddy that would traditionally hold things like sliced chillies & garlic in fish sauce and vinegar. You can buy versions of this today made of plastics and other synthetic materials.


