Species of palm native to the coastlines and estuarine habitats of the Indian and Pacific Oceans

Fruits from the East Indies, including piek (?Nipa fruticans - the Nipa palm) and froete mieri and tiackou (?Artocarpus integrifolia), in separate plates. Engraving by M. Pool after C. de Bruin, 1706.

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