Ripe fruit, segment, stone, of the Madeleine peach, Amygdalus persica.

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Ripe fruit, segment, stone, of the Madeleine peach, Amygdalus persica. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" (Encyclopedia of Natural History), Vienna, 1816. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist in Augsburg, where the first edition was published.

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