CACTUS: Leaf globe wart melon giant Stapelia Cereus Hairy Mexican opuntia, 1907

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'Cactuses; 1. Leaf-cactus (Phyllocactus anguliger); 2. Stapelia (simulating a cactus); 3. A Cereus (Cereus dasycanthus); 4. Globe-cactus (Echinocactus horizonthalonius); 5. Wart-cactus (Mammilaria pectinata); 6. Hairy Opuntia (Opuntia filipendula)-a, the blossom, enlarged; 7. Melon-cactus (Melocactus communis); 8. Giant cactus (Cereus giganteus)-a, blossom, enlarged; b. fruit, enlarged; 9. Mexican opuntia (Opuntia coccinellifera)-a, the fruit ("prickly pear"), enlarged'. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Unsigned. Provenance: "The Americana "; Editor-in-Chief Frederick Converse Beach, Managing Editor George Edwin Rines, Published by Scientific American Compiling Dep't, New York. Type: Colour antique print.

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Size: 1751px × 2719px
Location: World
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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