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Figure 6

From: Looking into the flora of Dutch Brazil: botanical identifications of seventeenth century plant illustrations in the Libri Picturati

Figure 6

(a) Spondias tuberosa with the tuber painted in front of the branch with leaves, tiny white flowers and a detail of the immature (green) and mature (yellow) fruit in the back (Theatrum Rerum Naturalium: 261); (b) Infertile individual of Hippeastrum psittacinum (Theatrum: 389); c Ficus gomelleira leaf, probably picked from the ground (Theatrum: 157); (d) Flowering vine of Centrosema brasilianum (Libri Principis: 1); (e) Amphilophium crucigerum dry open fruit without seeds (Theatrum: 387).

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