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Fever bark (a species of Croton): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flower, fruit and seeds and sections of fruit. Coloured line engraving.

Cascarilla bark plant (Croton eluteria): flowering stem, bark and floral segments. Colour halftone after J. Lambert, c. 1844, after P. Turpin.

Fever bark (Croton variegatum L.): branch with leaves only. Coloured line engraving.

Fever bark (Croton balsamifer Jacq.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

Fever bark (Croton coccineum Willd.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate sections of flower and fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.

Croton (Codiaeum variegatum (L.) Blume): flowering and fruiting branch tip with separate, numbered fruit clusters and single fruit, both whole and sectioned. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Notice of the copalchi-bark : a new and valuable bitter analogous to the cascarilla / by James Stark.

On the cascarilla plants of the West India and Bahama islands / by W.F. Daniell.

The physiological action of the oil and seeds of Croton elliotianus from British East Africa / by J. Theodore Cash and Walter J. Dilling.

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Croton

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Images about Croton

Works from the collections

Notice of the copalchi-bark : a new and valuable bitter analogous to the cascarilla / by James Stark.

Fever bark (Croton balsamifer Jacq.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

Fever bark (Croton variegatum L.): branch with leaves only. Coloured line engraving.

On the cascarilla plants of the West India and Bahama islands / by W.F. Daniell.

The physiological action of the oil and seeds of Croton elliotianus from British East Africa / by J. Theodore Cash and Walter J. Dilling.

Croton

Images from the collections

Images about Croton

Works from the collections

Notice of the copalchi-bark : a new and valuable bitter analogous to the cascarilla / by James Stark.

Fever bark (Croton balsamifer Jacq.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

Fever bark (Croton variegatum L.): branch with leaves only. Coloured line engraving.

On the cascarilla plants of the West India and Bahama islands / by W.F. Daniell.

The physiological action of the oil and seeds of Croton elliotianus from British East Africa / by J. Theodore Cash and Walter J. Dilling.

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