Mangrove Tree (Rhizophora mucronata Lam.): branch with flowers and fruits and separate sectioned flower and fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.

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[1686]
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16206i
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Mangrove Tree (Rhizophora mucronata Lam.): branch with flowers and fruits and separate sectioned flower and fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The bark of Rhizophora mucronata is used in tanning and the timber (boriti poles) for building and making pulp and rayon

Publication/Creation

[Amsterdam], [1686]

Physical description

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 33.2 x 41.5 cm

Lettering

Peê-Candèl ... Candelò ... ... Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Rhizophora mucronata Lam." 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 16206i

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