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The useful plants of west tropical Africa / H. M. Burkill.
Humphrey Morrison BurkillDate: 1985-
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Wild carrot (Daucus carota L.): flowering stem with separate root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 18117i
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Common sorrel (Rumex acetosa): flowering stem and separate roots. Partially coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24384i
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Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 18104i
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Banana (Musa coccinea Andr.): fruiting shoot with leaf and numbered sections of flowers. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.Date: [1885]Reference: 16355i
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Jambolan or Java plum (Eugenia jambolana Lam.): fruiting branch with numbered figures of inflorescence and sectioned flower, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.Date: [1885]Reference: 16409i
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Apple (Malus species): fruiting branch with separate fruit. Colour aquatint by B. Rosaspina after D. del Pino, 1825.
Del Pino, Domenico, active 1820.Date: [1817]Reference: 20681i
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Rampion (Campanula rapunculus L.): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16733i
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A Bath asparagus plant (Ornithogalum pyrenaicum): entire flowering plant in two sections. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Worthington George SmithDate: [1863-1880]Reference: 24485i
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Plum (Prunus species): fruiting branch with sectioned fruit. Coloured stipple engraving by T. Nasi, c. 1817, after D. Del Pino.
Del Pino, Domenico, active 1820.Date: [1817]Reference: 20675i
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Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.
Date: [1671]Reference: 24654i
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Celosia trigyna L.: two sections of the flowering stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 17979i
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Herbarium / Caz Hildebrand.
Hildebrand, CazDate: 2016
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The nature of crops : how we came to eat the plants we do / John M. Warren, The Institute of Biological Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, UK.
Warren, John, 1962-Date: [2015]
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Plantas alimenticias y plantas de condimento que viven en Yucatan / [Narciso Souza-Novelo].
Souza Novelo, NarcisoDate: 1950 [1951]
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A plant (Flacourtia sepiaria): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flowers and fruit and sections of fruit and seeds. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1685]Reference: 16073i
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Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16859i
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Aubergine or egg plant (Solanum melongena): fruits of different varieties. Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.
Briscoe, H.Date: [1870]Reference: 26150i
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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
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Useful plants : plants adapted for the food of man described and illustrated.
Date: 1870
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Cape shamrock or yellow sorrel (Oxalis corniculata L.): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by M.Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16686i
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Papaya, pawpaw or melon tree (Carica papaya L.): flowering and fruiting tree with flowers and fruit lying on the ground beneath. Etching by G. D. Ehret, 1742, after himself.
Georg Dionysius EhretReference: 18634i
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Cabbage (Brassica oleracea L.).
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1772]Reference: 17797i
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Cape pondweed or water hawthorn (Aponogeton distachyus): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1810, after S. Edwards.
Sydenham EdwardsDate: 1 June 1810Reference: 25842i
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Elephant apple (Limonia acidissima L.): branch with flowers and fruit, leaf and seeds and cross-section of fruit.
Date: [1683]Reference: 15866i