Raphionacme velutina
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Image details:
| Species id: | 145350 |
| Image id: | 5 |
| Image number: | 23879 |
| Photographer: | O Bourquin |
| Code 1 if image of a herbarium specimen: | 0 |
| Herbarium in which image taken: | |
| Code 1 if image not to be displayed: | 0 |
| Image notes: | Bushman scrape the bulb to clear an area from which the white flesh of the bulb is mashed out. The liquid is squeezed out in a clenched hand - the thumb is extended downward to direct the water into the drinkers mouth. It is said to be quite drinkable but very slightly bitter (Orty Bourquin 2015, pers. comm.) |
Record details:
| Record id: | 72432 |
| Date: | 15 Dec 2015 |
| Recorder(s): | O Bourquin |
| Collector(s): | |
| Determiner(s): | O Bourquin |
| Confirmer(s): | BT Wursten |
| Herbarium: | |
| Habitat: | In Kalahari sandveld |
| Location: | Modisa Wildlife Project,Grassland Game Farm, Ghanzi district. |
| Location code(s): | 182 |
| Outing code: | |
| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Botswana |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 2122C2 |
| Grid reference: | |
| FZ divisions: | SW |
| Altitude (metres): | 1066 |
| Notes: | |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -21.687500, 22.317500 |
| Location accuracy code: | 4 |