Roots, rhizome, leaves and flower of contrayerva, Dorstenia contrajerva.
Roots, rhizome, leaves and flower of contrayerva, Dorstenia contrajerva. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany" 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew over 2,500 plants for Smith's mammoth "English Botany" (1790-1814) and 440 mushrooms for "Coloured Figures of English Fungi " (1797) among many other works.
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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
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