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Passion flower (Passiflora alata): flowering stem. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).
Reference: 22160i
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Dolichos pubescens: flowering and fruiting stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1772]Reference: 17749i
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Jambolan or Java plum (Eugenia jambolana Lam.): fruiting branch with numbered figures of inflorescence and sectioned flower, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.Date: [1885]Reference: 16409i
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Jak tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus) with fruit in the Society Islands. Pen drawing.
Reference: 22094i
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A large kokerite palm (Maximiliana maripa) and the artist drawing it, in a tropical landscape. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1855.
Date: [1854-63]Reference: 26335i
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Coffee plant (Coffea arabica): fruiting stem. Watercolour, c.1823.
Reference: 22152i
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Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.
Date: [1671]Reference: 24654i
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Krakatoa: fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.) with surrounding tropical forest and native woman. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: 1 August 1788Reference: 20137i
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A plant (Achimenes longiflora): flowering stems. Coloured etching by G. Barclay, c. 1842, after Miss Drake.
Drake, S. A., active 1830-1840.Date: [1812-48]Reference: 26408i
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A plant (Corypha minor Jacq.) related to talipot palm: flowering stem with separate seedling, fruit and flower. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 17968i
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A cycad plant (Zamia species) with three large fruit. Photograph.
Reference: 28162i
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A tropical orchid (Coelia baueriana): flowering plant and floral segments. Coloured engraving by G. Barclay, c. 1842, after S. Drake.
Drake, S. A., active 1830-1840.Date: 1 June 1842Reference: 25888i
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Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau: workers preparing cakes from manioc root, within a decorative border. Engraving, c. 1777.
Date: [1777-78]Reference: 26349i
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Ambroma augusta (L.) L.f.: flowering stem with separate fruit, sections of flower and fruit and uncoloured leaf. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 17953i
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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.
Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770.Reference: 18634i
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Screwpines (Pandanus species) covered with climbing plants, surrounded by lush tropical vegetation. Wood engraving, c. 1867, after C. Whymper.
Whymper, Charles, 1853-1941.Date: [1867-1875]Reference: 20942i
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A tropical plant (Memecylon edule): flowering branch. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1815.
Date: [1817]Reference: 25523i
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Custard apple or Sweetsop (Annona squamosa L.): fruiting branch with sections of fruit, flowers and seeds. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.Date: [1885]Reference: 16308i
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A plant (Brucea species): flowering stem with floral segments. Coloured etching by J.F. Miller, c.1796, after himself.
Miller, John Frederick, active 1772-1796.Date: [1796]Reference: 20477i
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Rosewood tree (a species of Dalbergia): branch with flowers and pods and separate sections of flowers, pod and seeds. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16117i
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Dishcloth gourd (Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.): whole and sectioned fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 18107i
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Cashew nut tree (Anacardium occidentale): fruiting and flowering branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1796, after J. Ihle.
Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814.Date: 19 March 1796Reference: 25378i
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Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): flower and young fruit. Coloured aquatint after J. Forbes, 1769.
Forbes, James, 1749-1819.Date: [1st June 1813]Reference: 20096i
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A plant (Justicia bicalyculata Willd.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flower and opened fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16181i
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A tropical orchid (Trichopilia marginata): flowering plant. Coloured zincograph by L. Constans, c. 1851, after himself.
Constans, L., approximately 1850.Date: [1850-51]Reference: 26347i