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Herbarium specimen: Pastinaca sativa

Taxon:Apiaceae: Pastinaca sativa L. ("Wild Parsnip")
Other name:Umbelliferae: Peucedanum sativum Benth.& Hook.f.
Collected by:Dr Richard Charles L'Estrange Burges
Collection date:7/1920
Locality:Great Britain, VC29 Cambridgeshire, Cherry Hinton, TL45, roadside. Essentially on flat / calcareous ground.
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Pastinaca sativa herbarium specimen from Cherry Hinton, VC29 Cambridgeshire in 1920 by Dr Richard Charles L'Estrange Burges.
collector's number:838
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:Older label also attached (but only one specimen): Cherry Hinton, Cambridge. No. 253, 1920 - rest of label obscured.
Filing note:Verbascum

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Documented by tom humphrey on 11th January 2011.

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