Small cardboard box containing ‘Ch’eng [橙] fruit skin and seeds, dried’ and ‘grass seed 草果’, c.1950s-1960s
Item
Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/8/2/1/2/4
Scope and Contents
This is a cardboard box containing 3 dried plant specimens wrapped in tissue paper. On the tissue paper, there are two inscriptions:
‘grass seed 草果’ denoting two of the plant specimens and ‘Ch’eng [橙]fruit skin and seeds, dried’ denoting the third.
Citrus aurantium / Bitter orange
A description of the ‘Ch’eng fruit’ is included in Botanicum Sinicum, by E. Bretschneider, 1895.
Dates
- Creation: c.1950s-1960s
Extent
4 object(s) : Cardboard and organic material.
Dimensions
9 x 9 x 3 cm
Repository Details
Part of the Needham Research Institute Repository
Contact:
Needham Research Institute
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Cambridge CB3 9AF United Kingdom
+441223 762157
Library@nri.cam.ac.uk
Needham Research Institute
8 Sylvester Road
Cambridge CB3 9AF United Kingdom
+441223 762157
Library@nri.cam.ac.uk