White Corean ginseng
Ginseng has been used in traditional medicine for centuries. These roots are from a collection of specimens and photos chiefly concerned with economic botany collected by J R Jackson of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 73/1921/54/PRIORIS
- Collection Class
- Plants
- Collection Area Region
- East Asia
- Collector Excavator
- Jackson, Mr John Reader (from the collection of)
- Common Name
- white Corean ginseng
- Simple Name
- root
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901); Edwardian (1901-1914)
