Two plants (Pisonia sylvestris and Pisonia alba ): flowering and leafy shoots with separate numbered flower and fruit sections. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

  • Hoola van Nooten, Berthe, 1817-1892.
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[1885]
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16395i
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Two plants (Pisonia sylvestris and Pisonia alba ): flowering and leafy shoots with separate numbered flower and fruit sections. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The leaves of Pisonia sylvestris and P. alba are used as a vegetable

Pisonia alba is known as Moluccan cabbage and is an albino form of the lettuce tree (Pisonia grandis R.Br.)

Publication/Creation

Bruxelles [Brussels] : Librairie C. Muquardt, éditeur, [1885]

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1 print : chromolithograph, printed in 7 colours

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Pisonia sylvestris T. & B. Pisonia alba Spink. Peint d'apres nature par Mme Berthe Hoola van Nooten, à Batavia. Chromolith: par P. Depannemaeker, à Ledeberg-lez-Gand, (Belgique)

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Wellcome Collection 16395i

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