Record Detail
EBC 36987
Specimen Notes:
- Source: Spruce, R. (1855) Domestic Uses. Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (pp31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p 40.: Indians employed in collecting often put the tuber into the earth upside down after cutting off the long roots that radiate from it, in order to kill it. For were all the sarsaparilla dead (say they) the white man would not waste our lives in this detestable employ. At other times they pack the tubers into the middle of a bundle and thus cause a loss to purchaser of as much as 50 cent.
- Record posted on March 27, 2009 and last updated March 27, 2009
