Plant
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Apr 1897
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
label: Donor Name
content: United States Department of Agriculture
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "AGAVE, FOR PULQUE. AGAVE PLANT: THE PLANT AFTER IT HAS CEASED TO GIVE AGUA MIEL OR PULGUE, SHOWING THE CAVITY IN THE HEART WHENCE THE JUICE IS DRAWN. THE AGAVE PLANT ABOUT DURANGO COMES TO MATURITY IN 7 TO 8 YEARS. IT IS GROWN ON STONY HILL SLOPES. THE PLANT ABOUT TO FLOWER IS SELECTED AND A CAVITY CUT IN THE HEART TO COLLECT THE SWEET SAP WHICH IS DRAWN OFF BY MEANS OF A SIPHON THRICE DAILY AND ALLOWED TO FERMENT. EACH PLANT DURING A PERIOD OF FROM ONE TO THREE MONTHS YIELDS A LARGE QUANTITY, DYING WHEN EXHAUSTED. THE PRODUCT IS SOLD AS PULQUE, OR IS DISTILLED, PRODUCING MESCAL."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Durango, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 031859
label: USNM Number
content: E176473-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Botanical