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Pummelo or Pamplemousse (Citrus maxima (Burm.) Merr.): flowering and fruiting branch with numbered fruit segment and flower section. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Elephant apple (Limonia acidissima L.): branch with flowers and fruit, leaf and seeds and cross-section of fruit.

Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis): fruiting branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1796, after J. Ihle.

Custard apple (Annona triloba): fruiting and flowering branch and seed. Coloured etching by I. Barlow after J. Rysbrack.

Krakatoa: plantain trees (Musa x paradisiaca) and coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in a forest clearing, with native man and his hut. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.

A chinese apple-like fruit known as Li zhi: three fruiting stems. Watercolour.

Citron (Citrus medica L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured aquatint by G. Geri, c.1825, after D. Serantoni.

A cudweed plant (Gnaphalium species), mandrake plant (Mandragora officinarum) and breadfruit tree (Artocarpus atilis). Coloured engraving, c. 1827.

A plant (Flacourtia sepiaria): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flowers and fruit and sections of fruit and seeds. Coloured line engraving.

Banana plant (Musa species): flowering and fruiting plant with stolons and separate floral segments and sectioned fruit, also a description of the plant's growth, anatomical labels and a scale bar. Etching by G. D. Ehret, c. 1742, after himself.

Banana (Musa coccinea Andr.): fruiting shoot with leaf and numbered sections of flowers. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Jak tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus) with fruit in the Society Islands. Pen drawing.

Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

A cycad plant (Zamia species) with three large fruit. Photograph.

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Banana (Musa coccinea Andr.): fruiting shoot with leaf and numbered sections of flowers. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Jak tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus) with fruit in the Society Islands. Pen drawing.

Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

A cycad plant (Zamia species) with three large fruit. Photograph.

A plant (Flacourtia sepiaria): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flowers and fruit and sections of fruit and seeds. Coloured line engraving.