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Shire of Toodyay > Records

BOTANIC SPECIMEN IN RESIN, GASTROLOBIUM TRILOBUM (BULLOCK POISON)

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1979

Overview

Botanical specimen set in clear resin.
Gastrolobium Trilobum.

Historical information

Collected by Ray Paynter in 1979. One of a set of four specimens of the Gastrobium genus

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2004.19a

Item type

Themes

Material

Acrylic (Resin)

Leaf (Plant Material)

Width

20.5500 mm

Height or length

26.5000 mm

Depth

11 mm

Contextual Information

A significant number of the Gastrolbium species accumulate monofluoroacetate (the key ingredient of the poison known commonly as 1080), which caused introduced/non native animal deaths from the 1840s in Western Australia.

Year

Primary significance criteria

Scientific or research significance

Shire of Toodyay

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