Quercus tinctoria (Black oak, Q.velutina)

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Watercolour on paper, dated 1804 (post publication'). Page from a volume of notes, drawings, plant specimens and proof prints prepared for the publication Histoire des chênes de l'Amérique... (1801) by André Michaux. Also sometimes called tanbark as the yellow dye taken from the tree is used in printing calico
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Media ID 654396
Date: 3rd December 2007
Credit: © The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Filename: MIC00000167.jpg
Image Size: 3272 x 5109 Pixels
Filesize is 8.37MB
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Associated Categories: Trees
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