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Psychotropic plants

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  • Coffee plant (Coffea arabica): fruiting stem. Watercolour, c.1823.
  • Nine scenes showing tea cultivation and preparation on an Indian plantation. Engraving by T. Brown, c. 1850, after J. L. Williams.
  • The blossom and fruit of a coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Photograph.
  • Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.): fruiting and flowering branch with separate numbered sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • The manufacture of tobacco with leaves being sorted, dried, cured and pressed. Engraving, c. 1750.
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    Coffee plant (Coffea arabica): fruiting stem. Watercolour, c.1823.

    | Reference: 22152i
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    A California poppy (Eschscholzia californica): flowering stems and pod. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.

    Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. | Date: [1879-1887] | Reference: 24346i
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    A Chinese man with his tea pot, and workers harvesting tea. Etching with engraving, c. 1693.

    | Date: [1693] | Reference: 25251i
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    A coffee plant (Coffea arabica), its flower and fruit segments bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.

    | Date: [c. 1840] | Reference: 28052i
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    Workers harvesting the crop on a coffee plantation. Coloured lithograph by Deroi, c. 1850, after J. M. Rugendas.

    Rugendas, Johann Moritz, 1802-1858. | Date: 1850 | Reference: 25222i
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