Onion, Allium cepa, with flower, leaf, bulb and roots. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) was one of the three giants of French botanical art of the era alongside Pierre Joseph Redoute and Pancrace Bessa.

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Size: 4610px × 7060px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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