Banana plant (Musa species): flowering and fruiting plant with stolons and separate floral segments and sectioned fruit, also a description of the plant's growth, anatomical labels and a scale bar. Etching by G. D. Ehret, c. 1742, after himself.

  • Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770.
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18632i
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1 print : etching ; platemark 63.2 x 46.5 cm

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Musa, fructu cucumerino longiore quae in hypocausto Dni. Josephi Aylotte Baronetti flores suos et fructos ferebat. G. E. Ehret fecit Lettering continues with a description of the plant's rapid growth over several years and a table of anatomical labels

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Wellcome Collection 18632i

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