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  • A black man (Native American?) leans on a barrel while holding a pipe and tobacco leaves. Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
  • A poppy capsule oozing drops of crude opium and tools for its extraction. Lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • A poppy capsule oozing drops of crude opium and tools for its extraction. Lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • Coffee plant (Coffea arabica): fruiting stem. Watercolour, c.1823.
  • Coffee plant (Coffea arabica): flowering and fruiting stem. Watercolour.
  • The blossom and fruit of a coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Photograph.
  • A fruiting coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Photograph.
  • Arabian coffee tree (Coffea arabica): flowering stem, fruit and seed. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • An opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): seed capsule. Watercolour.
  • Coffee plant (Coffea arabica): flowering and fruiting stem with floral segments. Coloured engraving with etching by J. Miller, c. 1774, after S. Taylor.
  • Thorn-apple or Jamestown weed (Datura stramonium): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by A. Duménil, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): flowering and fruiting plants. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Flowering stems of the indigo plant (Indigofera tinctorum) and coffee plant (Coffea arabica). Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.
  • The blossom and fruit of a coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Photograph.
  • The manufacture of tobacco with leaves being sorted, dried, cured and pressed. Engraving, c. 1750.
  • A coca plantation in Peru in which stands an armed man and his dogs. Lithograph after Lieut. L. Gibbon.
  • The manufacture of tobacco with leaves being sorted, dried, cured and pressed. Engraving, c. 1750.
  • Tobacco (Nicotiana sp.): flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Tobacco plants (Nicotiana rustica and N. paniculata): flowering and fruiting stem of both species with their respective floral segments.Engraving by J.Caldwall, c.1805, after P.Henderson.
  • A California poppy (Eschscholzia californica): flowering stems and pod. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.
  • Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): white flowers, seed capsule and seeds. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): white flowers, seed capsule and seeds. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • A fruiting cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) Photograph.
  • A Chinese woman picking tea leaves. Wood engraving, 1857, after a pen and ink drawing.
  • Smoking tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers grade the tea leaves by hand. Coloured lithograph.
  • Women gathering leaves of the coca plant (Erythroxylum coca) in Bolivia. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
  • A Chinese man with his tea pot, and workers harvesting tea. Etching with engraving, c. 1693.
  • 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.
  • 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.