Double claw (Martynia annua L.): entire flowering plant with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

Date:
[1774]
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16975i
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Fruit of Martynia annua is sometimes eaten pickled

Double claw is also known as ram's horn or unicorn plant

Publication/Creation

[Romae (Rome)] : [Bouchard et Gravier], [1774]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 37.3 x 23.1 cm

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Martynia annua villosa et viscosa, folio subrotundo, flore magno rubro. Mart.cent.42.t.42. - Lin.Spec.Plant.Tom.II.pag.862. - Ital. Poposcitea

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Wellcome Collection 16975i

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