A plant (Caladium bicolour (Aiton) Vent.): 3 large stalked leaves and numbered inflorescences - both sheathed and unsheathed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

  • Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.
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[1885]
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16334i
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A plant (Caladium bicolour (Aiton) Vent.): 3 large stalked leaves and numbered inflorescences - both sheathed and unsheathed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Boiled rhizomes of Caladium bicolor eaten locally in Brazil, extract from boiled rhizomes used as emetic and purgative

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

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1 print : chromolithograph, printed in 9 colours

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Caladium bicolor Vent. 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 16334i

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