Turk's head cactus, Melocactus intortus (Greater Turk's cap melon thistle, Melocactus communis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," London, 1831.

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