Plantains growing upwards on a branch, Musa x paradisiaca. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte (Encyclopedia of Natural History), Vienna, 1816.

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