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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

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