Dwarf pomegranate tree, Punica nana.

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Dwarf pomegranate tree, Punica nana, with crimson flowers. Illustration by Henrietta Moriarty from "Fifty Plates of Greenhouse Plants" (1807), a re-issue of her own "Viridarium" (1806), with handcoloured copperplate engravings. Moriarty was a colonel's widow who turned to writing novels and illustrating botanical books to support her four children.

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Size: 3546px × 5435px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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