Cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum verum): flowering and leafy stem with floral sections. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1843.

  • Burnett, M. A., active 1850.
Date:
[1843]
Reference:
23815i
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The bark of the cinnamon tree is used to flavour food and toothpaste, also as incense and in medicine

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[London (Ave Maria Lane)] : [Whittaker & Co.], [1843]

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

Lettering

Laurus Cinnamomum

References note

Published description of the plant illustrated and its medicinal uses in : M.A.Burnett, Plantae utiliores ..., London, 1843

Reference

Wellcome Collection 23815i

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