Feedback request: Borago officinalis (2586)

[alex lockton]

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Specimen #261876

Taxon:	Boraginaceae: Borago officinalis L. ("Borage")
Filed in taxon folder:	Boraginaceae: Borago officinalis L. ("Borage")
Collection date:	1843
Locality:	Great Britain, VC19 North Essex, Colchester, TL92
ex herb:	Dr Robert Large Baker
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
Tags:	unconfirmed: locality is suspect

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by alex lockton following initial work by keith barnett on 24^th June 2008.

Edit history

date	user	change
26/06/2008	tom humphrey	Added tag collectors number: 33
13/08/2012	chrisu	Deleted note: 'presented by Hayes or Bloxham' no collector named location uncertain
13/08/2012	chrisu	Added notes
13/08/2012	chrisu	Added provenance: exherb Dr Robert Large Baker
06/03/2015	alex lockton	Deleted note: location uncertain
06/03/2015	alex lockton	Deleted locality: GB VC40 Colstry
06/03/2015	alex lockton	Added locality: GB VC40 Coalbrookdale
06/03/2015	alex lockton	Added collector: Rev J Hayes
06/03/2015	alex lockton	Added collector: Rev Andrew Bloxam
07/03/2015	wonastow	Deleted locality: GB VC40 Coalbrookdale
07/03/2015	wonastow	Added locality: GB VC19 Colchester
07/03/2015	wonastow	Deleted collector: Rev Andrew Bloxam
07/03/2015	wonastow	Deleted collector: Rev J Hayes
07/03/2015	wonastow	Added attribute flowerField: fruiting

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User comments about this sheet

alex lockton wrote

I think the site name and v.c. is a bit of a stretch. Can we mark a record unconfirmed?

[Tom Humphrey]

Hi Alex,

currently there isn't a defined way to mark a record as suspect.

A possible way to do this currently (until there's a better solution) would be to add an 'unconfirmed' tag to the specimen.

To do this click the tag icon (top right of the specimen), to add a tag field. I've done that for this specimen. This is only really a temporary fix.

regards,

Tom.

[alex lockton]

I think this could be Coalbrookdale. Will have to wait and see if Hayes or Bloxam recorded in that site that year.

[oldnick]

I think Colchester often appears that way on those labels

[alex lockton]

Chris Liffen has just sent me a note showing that Hayes lived in Coalbrookdale in 1842. I reckon if you lived there and collected a lot of stuff, you'd be quite likely to abbreviate the site name on the labels after a while...

[David Price]

ex herb Dr Robert Large Baker and probably collected by him at COLCHESTER, Essex - see http://www.meiosis.org.uk/botanists/baker-dr-robert-large-1824-1885/

The "Hayes or Bloxham" sticker is a red herring.