Engraved botanical plate with two plants, one with spiny thistle-like heads and one with round flower heads and feathery leaves, inside a decorative border.

Botanical plate from Fabio Colonna's Minus cognitarum stirpium, 1606

A printed botanical plate in a decorative border showing two plants with thistle-like spiny flower heads, rounded blossoms, and divided pinnate leaves on thin stems with roots. Caption text is printed across the top of the plate above the illustrations, with a page number and running header.

Artist: Fabio Colonna
Date: 1606
Medium
Source: Wellcome Collection
Size: 2638 × 4000 px

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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1606.
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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