Botanical Name

Sansevieria liberica Gerome & Labroy [Dracaenaceae]

Specimen Type

Herbarium Sheet [Preserved Specimen]

Collector

Peter Thonning

Collection Date-s

1799 – 1803

Collection Location

southern part of the country [Ghana]

Colonial Context

Danish Gold Coast of Africa 1663–2023

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 94 III 4-5-6

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 238

Common Names

Blaa [Schumacher/Thonning]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 132:] "Fishermen collect the leaves in quantity and by soaking them in water and beating them separate the fibrous and fleshy portions from each other; the former is a very good hemp from which they prepare the coarsest cords or reefs for their fishing-nets. Adanson mentions the same use of this plant in Senegal. In the same way the natives prepare from Ananas (pineapple) leaves a fairly fine and long but somewhat coarse fibre; of which they prepare all their thread and yarn for sewing; fishing-nets; etc. They have even had another plant which yields hemp which far surpasses the usual one in strength; the plant is subherbaceous; twining and jointed; the hemp consists actually in splinters which are picked out with the fingers and are no longer than the joint or segment of the plant. Th."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10004491

C10004491

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)