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Fagara rhetsa R.

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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. ROX185. In his 'Flora Indica', Roxburgh describes this species as a very large tree, native of the mountainous parts of the coast. Roxburgh also tells how 'Under the shade of this tree the Hill people assemble to examine, agitate, and determine their matters of public concern, deliver discourses, &c.', and this explain the vernacular and scientific name of this plant: rhetsa means a committee, and maun means trees of the largest size. Roxburgh finally observes that the unripe berries are aromatic and taste like the peel of the orange, and that the ripe seed tastes like black pepper '...from this circumstance I conceive this may be 'F. Piperita', yet I have always found the leaflets entire.' Roxburgh, 'Flora Indica' (1832) v.1, p.417.

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image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

Location

South Asia

Medium

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Flora
Flowers
Plants

Category

Glossary
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