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Concept

Croton (Genus)

Images

  • Fever bark (a species of Croton): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flower, fruit and seeds and sections of fruit. Coloured line engraving.
  • Cascarilla bark plant (Croton eluteria): flowering stem, bark and floral segments. Colour halftone after J. Lambert, c. 1844, after P. Turpin.
  • Fever bark (Croton variegatum L.): branch with leaves only. Coloured line engraving.
  • Fever bark (Croton balsamifer Jacq.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Fever bark (Croton coccineum Willd.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate sections of flower and fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
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Catalogue

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    Notice of the copalchi-bark : a new and valuable bitter analogous to the cascarilla / by James Stark.

    Stark, James, 1814-1883. | Date: 1849
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    Fever bark (Croton balsamifer Jacq.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

    Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801. | Date: [1776] | Reference: 18089i
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    Fever bark (Croton variegatum L.): branch with leaves only. Coloured line engraving.

    | Date: [1686] | Reference: 16284i
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    On the cascarilla plants of the West India and Bahama islands / by W.F. Daniell.

    Daniell, William Freeman, 1818-1865. | Date: [1863]
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    The physiological action of the oil and seeds of Croton elliotianus from British East Africa / by J. Theodore Cash and Walter J. Dilling.

    Cash, John Theodore, 1854-1936. | Date: 1914
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