Castor oil plant (Ricinus communis): flowering and fruiting stem, leaf and fruit sections. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.

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Oil from the castor oil seeds is used as a purgative, also in soap, paint, varnish, candles, and in dyeing textiles

[London (Ave Maria Lane)] : [Whittaker & Co.], [1847]

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

Ricinus communis

Published description of the plant illustrated and its medicinal uses in : M.A.Burnett, Plantae utiliores ..., London, 1847

Wellcome Collection 23822i

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