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Root crops

Images

  • Cassava or tapioca plant (Manihot esculenta): leafy stem and tuberous roots. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1809.
  • Common garlic (Allium sativum): bulb, flower head, single flower and single clove. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1850.
  • Yuquilla (Manihot carthaginensis (Jacq.) Mill.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau: workers preparing cakes from manioc root, within a decorative border. Engraving, c. 1777.
  • A native American grinding root vegetables to make the remedy marketed as Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills, and other native American activities. Colour lithographs, ca. 1900.
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Catalogue

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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
    • Pictures

    A native American grinding root vegetables to make the remedy marketed as Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills, and other native American activities. Colour lithographs, ca. 1900.

    | Date: [1900?] | Reference: 580232i
    • Books

    Crop production, poisoned food and public health / by John Hepburn.

    Hepburn, John. | Date: 1925
    • Books

    Roots, tubers, plantains, and bananas in human nutrition.

    | Date: 1990
    • Books
    • Online

    Root vegetables / issued by the Ministry of Food.

    | Date: 1946
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