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A fruiting coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Photograph.
Reference: 28176i
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Canary Islanders circling a fountain tree (Spathodea campanulata) and filling their urns with the water it secretes. Wood-engraving, ca. 1748.
Date: 1748Reference: 25428i
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Bahama whitewood tree (Canella winterana): flowering and fruiting branch and beetle. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1808, after J. Ihle.
Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814.Date: 2 April 1808Reference: 25397i
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A tropical orchid (Masdevallia chimaera): flowering plant and separate flower. Coloured lithograph, c. 1875, after W. Fitch.
Fitch, W. H. (Walter Hood), 1817-1892.Date: 1875]Reference: 25845i
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Custard apple or Bullock's heart (Annona reticulata L.): fruiting branch with sections of fruit and seeds. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.Date: [1885]Reference: 16305i
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A palm tree (Bactris species) in Guyana. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846.
Goodall, Edward A.Date: Oct.r 23rd 1846Reference: 21764i
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An orchid (Angraecum sesquipedale Thouars): flowers, a leaf and small outline of the whole plant. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c.1862, after himself.
Fitch, W. H. (Walter Hood), 1817-1892.Date: [1862-65]Reference: 20462i
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A leafy plant (Chlorophytum elatum), related to the spider plant. Chromolithograph by L. van Houtte, c. 1875.
Date: [1875]Reference: 26133i
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A tropical orchid (Dendrobium fimbriatum var. Oculatum): flowering stem. Chromolithograph by G. Severeyns, c. 1860, after J. Vandamme.
Vandamme, J., active 1860-1890.Date: [1854-63]Reference: 26326i
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Dhak or palas tree (Butea monosperma): flowering branch with fruit and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.
Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814.Date: 21 March 1799Reference: 25386i
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A she-oak or swamp oak tree (Casuarina species). Coloured lithograph, c. 1848, after B. King.
King, B.Date: [1812-48]Reference: 26426i
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A tropical orchid (Miltonia spectabilis var. Moreliana): flowering plant. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1863, after himself.
Stroobant, L., active 1850-1860.Date: [1854-63]Reference: 26323i
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Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): an expanded flower with surrounding leaves and buds. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.
Fitch, W. H. (Walter Hood), 1817-1892.Date: 1845Reference: 26758i
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Ixia longifolia Jacq.: entire flowering plant with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17736i
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Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis): fruiting branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1796, after J. Ihle.
Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814.Date: 3 September 1796Reference: 25374i
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Singapore: a large bungalow for British officers with tropical plants in the garden. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1880.
Taylor, J. E. (John Edmund), active 1860-1885.Date: 1880Reference: 32480i
Part of: Sketches in the Malay archipelago. Album of watercolours and photographs made and collected by J.E. Taylor.
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An orchid (Brassia maculata): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1814, after S. Edwards.
Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819.Date: 1 December 1814Reference: 25829i
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Passion flower (Passiflora species): twining stem with flowers and fruit. Pen drawing.
Reference: 21876i
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Murumuru palm tree (Astrocaryum murumuru Mart.) in Guyana. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846.
Goodall, Edward A.Date: Sept. 1846Reference: 21754i
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Cinchona plant (Cinchona caribbaea): flowering and fruiting branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.
Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814.Date: 24 July 1801Reference: 25393i
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A species of the genus Byttneria: flowering stem with separate segments of flower, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17554i
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Melon (Cucumis melo L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate whole and sectioned mature fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 18001i
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Five orchids, all species of the genus Epidendrum: flowering stems and some floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27163i
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Old trunk of a toddy palm tree (Caryota urens). Watercolour by H. Schlagintweit.
Schlagintweit-Sakünlünski, Hermann von, 1826-1882.Date: 1854 to 1858Reference: 21747i
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Dishcloth gourd (Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.): flowering stem with separate sectioned fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16728i