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Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.): fruiting and flowering branch with separate numbered sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

  • Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.
Date:
[1885]
Reference:
16417i
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Description

Seeds of cacao are a source of chocolate, they contain the alkaloid theobromine and butter made from them has medicinal use

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

1 print : chromolithograph, printed in 9 colours

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Theobroma cacao. Peint d'apres nature par Mme Berthe Hoola van Nooten, à Batavia. Chromolith: par P. Depannemaeker, à Ledeberg-lez-Gand, (Belgique)

Reference

Wellcome Library no. 16417i

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  • French

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