A flowering Cereus, a genus of cacti (family Cactaceae) from South America, painted by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770), a German botanist and entomologist known for his botanical illustrations who became one of the most influential European botanical artists of all time. His first illustrations were in collaboration with Carl Linnaeus and George Clifford in 1735-1736. Clifford, a wealthy Dutch banker and governor of the Dutch East India Company was a keen botanist with a large herbarium.

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