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Mimosa fera Lour.

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Date

1795-1804

Artist

Collection

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : The Roxburgh Collection

Acknowledgements

Digitised by TWW

Description

Watercolour illustration commissioned by William Roxburgh. ROX1097. In his 'Flora Indica', Roxburgh reports that this species is a native of China and Vietnam, and that in the Botanic gardens at Calcutta, trees which are twenty-five years old are about twenty-five feet in height and have slender, poor-looking trunk. Roxburgh, 'Flora Indica' (1832) v.2, p.560.

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image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

Location

South Asia

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Flora
Flowers
Plants

Category

Glossary
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