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Solanum melongena, aubergine

Solanum melungena (Solanum melongena), aubergine (eggplant). REGNAULT Nicolas Francois (1746-c.1810) and Genevive de Nangis REGNAULT (b.1746). La Botanique mise a la portee de tout le Monde: ou collection des Plantes d'usage dans la Medecine, dans les Alimens et dans les Arts.Vol.1, 1774. 68

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Aubergine, Black, Botanical Art, Botanical Illustration Cookery, Culinary, Edible, Eggplant, Flower, Flowering, Flowers, Foliage, Food, Fruit, Fruiting Body, Fruits, Genevive De Nangis, La Botanique Mise A La Port E De Tout Le Monde, La Botanique Mise A La Portée De Tout Le Monde, Leaf, Leaves, Melongena, Melungena, Nicolas Franc Ois, Nicolas François, Nightshade, Petals, Pink, Purple, Regnault, Solanaceae, Solanum, Watercolor, Watercolors, Watercolour, Watercolours

47. Flowers of Datura and Humming Birds, Brazil

Datura arborea, Linn., is a native of tropical America, and is commonly cultivated in other countries, as it grows like a rank weed. It is better known in English greenhouses under the name Brugmansia arborea, Pers. See 132, 227, and 689 The leaves a

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Art, Artist, Brazil, Flower, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Water, Weed

Cattleya superba, 1838

Watercolour on paper. Original drawing for plate XXII in John Lindley's Sertum orchidaceum: a wreath of the most beautiful orchidaceous flowers; selected by John Lindley, published in 1838. Illustration shows study in sepia of leaves, flowers and roots. Also small drawing lower right in grey tones detailing the lip of the flower. Drawing inscribed on lower left corner Rec'd Sept.15, 1925 in unknown hand. Paper has discoloured across lower edge. Paper is watermarked Smith & Allnut 1834

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