DETAILS
- Discipline
NH: BOTANY: VASCULAR PLANTS EXOTIC
- Scientific Name
Eucalyptus sp. ssp. var.
- Common Name
Vascular Plant; Gum tree
- Date Collected
circa 1860
- Place Collected
India, Nilgiris (Ex Australia]
- Form
herbarium sheet
- Credit Line/Donor
Presented by Unknown
- Description
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Vascular Plant: Gum tree
The specimen is a member of the large myrtle family, comprising over 700 species. Gum trees originated in Australasia but were widely planted during colonial times due to their fast growing and disease resistant timber. The specimen came to Glasgow Museums as part of a large donation of economic plants from Kew gardens. It grew in a plantation in the Nilgiri hills in southern India (circa 1860). It is presumably associated with the collecting of one of the experimental forester at the time: Hugh Cleghorn or his assistant, and later successor, Major R H Beddome. - ID Number
NHB.1880.67.kg
- Location
In storage
- Terms
British Imperialism and its Legacies: Eucalyptus sp. (Gum tree)
British Imperialism and its Legacies: Economic Botany
British Imperialism and its Legacies: Exploitation of nature