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The useful plants of west tropical Africa / H. M. Burkill.

Date

1985-

Wild carrot (Daucus carota L.): flowering stem with separate root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

Date

[1776]

Reference

18117i

Common sorrel (Rumex acetosa): flowering stem and separate roots. Partially coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.

Date

[1863-1880]

Reference

24384i

Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

Date

[1776]

Reference

18104i

Apple (Malus species): fruiting branch with separate fruit. Colour aquatint by B. Rosaspina after D. del Pino, 1825.

Date

[1817]

Reference

20681i

Rampion (Campanula rapunculus L.): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard.

Date

[1772]

Reference

16733i

A Bath asparagus plant (Ornithogalum pyrenaicum): entire flowering plant in two sections. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.

Date

[1863-1880]

Reference

24485i

Plum (Prunus species): fruiting branch with sectioned fruit. Coloured stipple engraving by T. Nasi, c. 1817, after D. Del Pino.

Date

[1817]

Reference

20675i

Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

Date

[1671]

Reference

24654i

Celosia trigyna L.: two sections of the flowering stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

Date

[1776]

Reference

17979i

Herbarium / Caz Hildebrand.

Date

2016

The nature of crops : how we came to eat the plants we do / John M. Warren, The Institute of Biological Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, UK.

Date

[2015]

Plantas alimenticias y plantas de condimento que viven en Yucatan / [Narciso Souza-Novelo].

Date

1950 [1951]

Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

Date

[1774]

Reference

16859i

Aubergine or egg plant (Solanum melongena): fruits of different varieties. Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.

Date

[1870]

Reference

26150i

Workers preparing cakes from manioc root in the tropics, with decorative border. Engraving, c. 1777.

Date

[1777-78]

Reference

26349i

Useful plants : plants adapted for the food of man described and illustrated.

Date

1870

Cape shamrock or yellow sorrel (Oxalis corniculata L.): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by M.Bouchard, 1772.

Date

[1772]

Reference

16686i

Papaya, pawpaw or melon tree (Carica papaya L.): flowering and fruiting tree with flowers and fruit lying on the ground beneath. Etching by G. D. Ehret, 1742, after himself.

Reference

18634i

Cabbage (Brassica oleracea L.).

Date

[1772]

Reference

17797i

Cape pondweed or water hawthorn (Aponogeton distachyus): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1810, after S. Edwards.

Date

1 June 1810

Reference

25842i

Elephant apple (Limonia acidissima L.): branch with flowers and fruit, leaf and seeds and cross-section of fruit.

Date

[1683]

Reference

15866i

Peach (Prunus species): fruiting branch with halved fruit and seed. Colour stipple engraving by L. Giarrè, c. 1817, after D. del Pino.

Date

[1817]

Reference

20656i

Four cultivars of pear (Pyrus communis cv.): entire fruits. Coloured etching by W. Clark, c. 1835, after Lady Boughton.

Date

[1812-48]

Reference

26401i

A fig plant (Ficus carica): fruits and leaves. Watercolour.

Reference

23245i