Coconut palm, Cocos nucifera 1, banana, Musa paradisiaca 2, sugar cane, Saccharum officinale 3, flag, Iris germanica 4, Poet's daffodil, Narcissus poeticus 5, and fern Cymbidium echinocarpon 6. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration engraved by Verico, drawn and directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Turpin (1775-1840) is considered one of the greatest French botanical illustrators of the 19th century.

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