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Hand-coloured botanical print of four plants on one page: citron fruit, pink meadow saffron, white cistus flower, and coffee branch with red berries.

The universal herbal; or, botanical, medical, and agricultural dictionary / [Thomas Green].

A hand-coloured botanical engraving on a page with four numbered plates. Clockwise from top left: a citron branch bearing a yellow, bumpy fruit, a pink-speckled meadow saffron with bulb, a white-flowered cistus stem, and a coffee branch with red berries and white blossoms. Each specimen is labelled in print with its Latin name.

Artist
Thomas Green
Date
[1820?]
Medium
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
3064 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1830.
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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