Tamarindus indica, tamarind

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Hand painted copy of an illustration of tamarind, commissioned by William Roxburgh. In his Flora Indica, Roxburgh describes this species as a magnificent tree, one of the largest in India. It generally flowers in May and ripens its fruit during the cold season. Roxburgh also reports an extract of a letter of Captain Pringle at Lucknow, where the qualities and the uses of various parts of this plant are explained. Other names: Tintri, Tintiree (Sanskrit); Tintiree, Tintil, Tentool (Bengali); Umli, Amli (Hindi); Chinta-chittoo (Telugu)
Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Media ID 10698939
Date: 4th March 2015
Copyright Status: Copyrighted Work
Source: Library, Art & Archives, RBG Kew
Owner URL: http://images.kew.org/
Credit: © The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Filename: ROX00000793.jpg
Image Size: 4080 x 5440 Pixels
Filesize is 12.49MB
Version 2 is 5.15MB
Associated Categories: William Roxburgh
Keywords: 19th century, art, botanical, color, colour, culinary, east india company, edible, flora indica, food, illustration, leguminosae, plant, rbg kew, tamarind, tamarindus indica, unknown indian artist, watercolour, william roxburgh