Thorn-apple or Jamestown weed (Datura stramonium): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by A. Duménil, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.

  • Naudin, Philibert, active 1870.
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[1865]
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24693i
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Thorn-apple or Jamestown weed (Datura stramonium): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by A. Duménil, c. 1865, after P. Naudin. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Thorn-apple plant yields stramonium, a drug used in treating asthma and as a hallucinogen by Algonquin Indians

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[Paris], [1865] (Paris : F. Lamoureux)

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1 print : etching with rouletted tints, with watercolour

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Pomme épineuse P. Naudin pinxt. A. Duménil sc pl.

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Wellcome Collection 24693i

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