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BOTANIC SPECIMEN IN RESIN, GASTROLOBIUM TRILOBUM (BULLOCK POISON)
1979Overview
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
Objects
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
Last modified
Tuesday, 21 September, 2021
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