Butcher's broom (Rucus aculeatus L.): entire flowering plant with separate berry and immature fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

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[1772]
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16591i
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Butcher's broom (Rucus aculeatus L.): entire flowering plant with separate berry and immature fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Butcher's broom is also known as pettigree or kneeholm

The leaves of Butcher's broom were formerly used to decorate meat, the young shoots are eaten and a decoction of the cladodes used in medicine

Publication/Creation

[Romae (Rome)] : [Bouchard et Gravier], [1772]

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 36.5 x 22.7 cm

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Ruscus latifolius, fructu folio innascente. T.79. Ital. Lauro Alessandrino. - Gall. Laurier Alexandrin. Magdalena Bouchard sculpsit

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Wellcome Collection 16591i

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