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A plant (Rumphia amboiensis): branch with flowers and fruit, seed and cross-section of fruit. Coloured line engraving.

A coffee tree (Coffea species), nutmeg plant (Myristica fragrans) and cashew nut tree (Anacardium occidentale): flowers and fruit. Coloured engraving, c. 1827.

A plant (Holigarna arnottiana): branch with leaves, flowers and fruit and cross-sections of fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.

Mango (Mangifera indica L.): fruiting branch with numbered sections of flower and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Terpentine tree bough (Pistacia terebinthus L.) and goel nasranie flowers. Line engraving by M. Pool after C. de Bruins, 1705.

Birds and plants from Persia, including turtledoves, senna plant, terpentine plant, pomegranate flowers and tree and pumpkin . Line engraving by M. Pool after C. de Bruin, 1704.

Mango (Mangifera indica L.): branch with flowers, fruit and leaves, cross-section of fruit and flower. Coloured line engraving.

Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr.: branch with leaves, flowers and fruit and sections of inflorescence, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.

Plants, birds and archaeological sites from Persia, including terpentine plant (Pistacia terebinthus). Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1705.

Mango (Mangifera indica L.): fruiting tree, leaves, fruit, flower, seed and cross-section of seed. Coloured line engraving.

St. Peter's wort, cassioberry bush, myrtle-leaved sumach and candleberry tree. Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.

Cashew nut or acajou (Anacardium occidentale L.): flowering and fruiting branch with separate sectioned flowers and fruit. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Cashew nut tree (Anacardium occidentale): fruiting and flowering branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1796, after J. Ihle.

Two cultivars of mango (Mangifera indica cv.): entire fruits. Coloured etching by W. Clark, c. 1830, after Mrs. Withers.

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Anacardiaceae

Images from the collections

Images referencing Anacardiaceae

Works from the collections

Cashew nut tree (Anacardium occidentale): fruiting and flowering branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1796, after J. Ihle.

Mango (Mangifera indica L.): branch with flowers, fruit and leaves, cross-section of fruit and flower. Coloured line engraving.

Terpentine tree bough (Pistacia terebinthus L.) and goel nasranie flowers. Line engraving by M. Pool after C. de Bruins, 1705.

Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr.: branch with leaves, flowers and fruit and sections of inflorescence, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.

Two cultivars of mango (Mangifera indica cv.): entire fruits. Coloured etching by W. Clark, c. 1830, after Mrs. Withers.

Anacardiaceae

Images from the collections

Images referencing Anacardiaceae

Works from the collections

Cashew nut tree (Anacardium occidentale): fruiting and flowering branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1796, after J. Ihle.

Mango (Mangifera indica L.): branch with flowers, fruit and leaves, cross-section of fruit and flower. Coloured line engraving.

Terpentine tree bough (Pistacia terebinthus L.) and goel nasranie flowers. Line engraving by M. Pool after C. de Bruins, 1705.

Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr.: branch with leaves, flowers and fruit and sections of inflorescence, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.

Two cultivars of mango (Mangifera indica cv.): entire fruits. Coloured etching by W. Clark, c. 1830, after Mrs. Withers.

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