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Asparagaceae

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  • Scilla campanulata : scille à fleurs en cloche / par P.J. Redouté.
  • An Agave plant. Watercolour.
  • Eight plants, including an orchid and two yuccas: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Sansevieria hyacinthoides (L.) Druce: inflorescence with separate leaf with part of rootstock and fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • The century plant (Agave americana): flowering stem. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1796, after J. Ihle.
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    Eight plants, including an orchid and two yuccas: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.

    | Date: 1836 | Reference: 27794i
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    An Agave plant. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 22220i
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    An old dragon tree (Dracaena draco) with a gash in its stem releasing its "dragon's blood" resin and a door in its trunk. Aquatint with etching by R. G. Reeve after J. J. Williams, c.1819.

    Williams, J. J. | Date: 1819 | Reference: 21027i
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    The century plant (Agave americana): flowering stem. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1796, after J. Ihle.

    Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814. | Date: 21 December 1796 | Reference: 25383i
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    Scilla campanulata : scille à fleurs en cloche / par P.J. Redouté.

    Redouté, Pierre Joseph, 1759-1840. | Date: [1958?]
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