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Hand-coloured botanical engraving of a branch with blue-green leaves, red berries, a dark blue flower, and small fruit and seed sections.

Guatteria sempervirens branch with fruit and seeds, hand-coloured engraving

A branch of a flowering tree bears large, pale blue-green oval leaves with prominent yellow-green midribs, alongside clusters of small red and pink berries and a single dark blue flower. Small detached sections of fruit and seed are drawn at lower left, on a pale grey-white ground with handwritten annotations at upper right.

Artist
Hendrik van Rheede
Date
[1685]
Medium
Engravings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3176 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1685.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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