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Herbarium specimen: Camellia sinensis

Taxon:Camellia sinensis ("Tea-plant")
Other name:Tea-plant, Hybrid
Collected by:William Bell
Collection date:1868
Locality:India, Uttar Pradesh, Saharanpur, see note
donated by:Prof John Hutton Balfour (Donation to Perth Literary and Antiquarian Society, apparently arranged by William Carmichael MacIntosh ) 1880
Institution:Perth Museum and Art Gallery (PTH)
Accession number:PTH.2005.27.1384
notes:Specimens 2005.27.1382-1384 appear to be the samples of
tea-plants exhibited by William Bell during his communication
'Notes on the varieties of Tea cultivated in India' at a meeting
of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh on 8.4.1869 (see Trans.
Bot. Soc. Edin. Vol. X pages 162-164); note William Bell was
head gardener at Saharanpur, India 1862-1869; the specimens are
probably from Saharanpur.

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+Camellia sinensisIN, Uttar Pradesh, SaharanpurWilliam Bell1868PTH
+Camellia sinensisIN, Uttar Pradesh, SaharanpurWilliam Bell1868PTH

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