Asian palmyra palm, toddy palm, or sugar palm, Borassus flabellifer 1, and African oil palm, Elaeis guineensis 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795.

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