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Ziziphus caracutta Buch.

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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. ROX1803.
In his 'Flora Indica', Roxburgh describes this plant as an arboreous species, with paired thorns and native of the southern parts of Mysore. It flowers in April, and the fruit ripens in December. According to Roxburgh, Dr. Buchanan sent seeds of this plant from Mysore, to the Botanic garden of Calcutta, and the plants obtained '...in four years were about ten feet high, with a tolerably erect, stout trunk, and many spreading crooked branches; covered with smooth, dark ash-coloured bark.'
Roxburgh, 'Flora Indica' (1832) v.1, p.612.

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image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

Location

South Asia

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Flora
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Category

Glossary
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