Summary
Alternative Name(s): Paracress, Toothache Plant.
Sample of the herb Para cress, also known as Brazil cress. It was used for medicinal purposes and as a food.
This sample, in a glass dome, is of unrecorded provenance, but it is housed and labelled in the same manner as objects adjacent in number in the Museum's collection from Franz Wilhelm & Co, Vienna, Austria, provenanced to the 1888 Centennial Exhibition in Melbourne.
Physical Description
Para cress sample in glass dome with label.
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Unknown Acquisition Method from Unknown Source
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Place & Date of Event
Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1888
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Date Made
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Inscriptions
First label: '[handwritten] 3086 / [printed] SCIENCE MUSEUM'. Second label: '[printed] FRANZ WILHELM & Co / [handwritten] herba Spilantb. olerac. / herb of Spilanth. olerac / [printed] WIEN'.
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Classification
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Type of item
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Exhibition Collection Management
116 mm (Length), 116 mm (Width), 147 mm (Height)
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Dimensions
150 mm (Height), 115 mm (Outside Diameter)
Measurement From Conservation.
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Keywords
Aster Family (Asteraceae), Food, Medicinal Plants, Exhibitions: Melbourne International Centennial, 1888-1889
