Flowering plant cultivated for its edible seeds

Sesamum (Sesamum indicum L.): flowering and fruiting stem with a skeleton mantis. Coloured aquatint by W. Hooker after J. Forbes, 1781.

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Sesamum (Sesamum indicum L.): flowering and fruiting stem with a skeleton mantis. Coloured aquatint by W. Hooker after J. Forbes, 1781.