Norfolk Island pine or Norfolk pine, Araucaria heterophylla. Branch with needles and pine cone. Le Sapin-geant des terres Australes, Araucaria excelsa. Copied from a botanical by Ferdinand Bauer in Aylmer Lambert's Description of the Genus Pinus, 1803. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1815. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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