An oleander plant (Nerium oleander): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after A. Bétrérnieux (?).

  • Bétrérnieux, A.
Date:
1850
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27086i
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Macédoines variées
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An oleander plant (Nerium oleander): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after A. Bétrérnieux (?). Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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One leaf of an oleander plant is a potentially lethal dose with death within 24 hours, it is used in rat poison

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Paris (Rue des Grands-Augustins 19) : Berrieux; London (10 Chandos St. Covent Garden) : Victor Delarue (Paris : Lemercier)

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour.

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Laurier rose. Macédoines variées no. 75. Aphe Bétrérnieux Print is signed indistinctly at bottom right, possibly "Aphe Bétrérnieux"

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Wellcome Collection 27086i

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