Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Indigo plant (Indigofera tinctoria L.): flowering stem with separate flower and fruit segments. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E.Haid, c.1750, after G.D.Ehret.
Indigo plant (Indigofera tinctoria L.): flowering stem with separate flower and fruit segments. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E.Haid, c.1750, after G.D.Ehret.
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Indigo plant (Indigofera tinctoria L.): flowering stem with separate flower and fruit segments. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E.Haid, c.1750, after G.D.Ehret.

Georg Dionysius Ehret

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Lettering: INDIGOFERA scapo infirmo, foliorum pinis oblongis pallide virentibus glabris, pedunculis spicae longissimus, floribus laxe dispositis, leguminibg compressis brevibg gibbosis subasperis dispermis. ...

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