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Elaeodendrum glaucum Persoon.

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Date

1795-1804

Artist

Unknown Artist (Company School)

Collection

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : The Roxburgh Collection

Acknowledgements

Digitised by TWW

Description

Watercolour illustration commissioned by William Roxburgh. ROX1956.
In his 'Flora Indica', Roxburgh describes this species as a small tree, native of various parts of India. It flowers in May, and ripens its seed in September and October. Roxburgh also notes that this species was sent to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, from Sri-Lanka, under the name of Ceylon tea, and he comments: '...its leaves are like those of that plant but much longer; their taste slightly bitter and astringent.'
Roxburgh, 'Flora Indica' (1832) v.1, p.638.

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Location

Sri Lanka

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