Egyptian gum arabic (Acacia nilotica): flowering stem with separate seed pod. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.

  • Burnett, M. A., active 1850.
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[1839-42]
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23795i
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Egyptian gum arabic (Acacia nilotica): flowering stem with separate seed pod. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Egyptian gum arabic is used in tanning, for its timber and the seed pods are eaten

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[London (Ave Maria Lane)] : [Whittaker & Co.], [1839-42]

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

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Acacia vera

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Published description of the plant illustrated and its medicinal uses in : M.A.Burnett, Plantae utiliores ..., London, 1839-42

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Wellcome Collection 23795i

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