Mango (Mangifera indica L.): branch with flowers, fruit and leaves, cross-section of fruit and flower. Coloured line engraving.

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[1683]
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15796i
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Mango (Mangifera indica L.): branch with flowers, fruit and leaves, cross-section of fruit and flower. Coloured line engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The mango tree is also used for its timber

Publication/Creation

[Amsterdam], [1683]

Physical description

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.3 x 43.7 cm

Lettering

Maù. Latin. ... Malab. Ambò. ... Bram. ... Arab. Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. M. Holmes: "Mangifera indica L. N.O. 53" Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet

References note

See further: K.S. Manilal (ed.), Botany and history of Hortus Malabaricus, Rotterdam, 1980, ch. 2 by M. Fournier, pp. 6-21
J. Heniger, Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakestein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus, Rotterdam, 1986

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Wellcome Collection 15796i

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