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  • Elephant apple (Limonia acidissima L.): branch with flowers and fruit, leaf and seeds and cross-section of fruit.
  • Two fruiting tree branches, possibly a Sorbus and Prunus species. Watercolour.
  • Three British fruit trees, sloe (Prunus spinosa), wild cherry (Prunus avium) and bird cherry (Prunus padus). Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.
  • A stone fruit tree, possibly a plum (Prunus species): fruiting branch and seed. Watercolour.
  • A pear (Pyrus species): flowering branch. Watercolour.
  • A cudweed plant (Gnaphalium species), mandrake plant (Mandragora officinarum) and breadfruit tree (Artocarpus atilis). Coloured engraving, c. 1827.
  • A woman breast feeding a child and plucking a fruit from an abundant tree, two of her other children are also with her. Engraving by J. Frey, 1732, after F. Albani.
  • A species of Sapotaceae: branch with flowers and fruit, separate flower and sections of fruit and seeds. Coloured line engraving.
  • Citron (Citrus medica): flowering branch. Colour and coloured mezzotint, c. 1741.
  • The month September and the sign of Libra, represented by people gathering fruit from trees and the parable of the barren fig tree. Engraving by A. Collaert after H. Bol, 1585.
  • Cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao), Chinese citron or natsumikan (Citrus natsudaidai), jak fruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), muhimbi tree (Cynometra cauliflora) and bilimbi tree (Averrhoa bilimbi), in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.
  • Two banana plants (Musa species) and a date palm tree. Coloured engraving, c. 1827.
  • Mango (Mangifera indica L.): fruiting branch with numbered sections of flower and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • A border of trees, palms and herbaceous plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D. Coloured photograph.
  • Separate pictures of garden fruit, flowers, vegetables, birds, dogs and two monkeys dressed as gardeners. Coloured etchings, 18th century.
  • Three men carousing beneath a mulberry tree, with verses of a song comparing the life of humans to the life of a tree. Etching after I. Cruikshank, 1808.
  • Jak or jack tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) with man collecting the fallen fruit. Engraving by J. Storer after J. Forbes, 1767.
  • Jak tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus) with fruit in the Society Islands. Pen drawing.
  • Mango (Mangifera indica L.): branch with flowers, fruit and leaves, cross-section of fruit and flower. Coloured line engraving.
  • A pear tree (Pyrus domestica): flowering stem, fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1796.
  • Breadfruit tree (Artocarpus altilis) in tropical landscape. Coloured aquatint by W. Daniell, c. 1809, after himself.
  • A border of plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D., with the main plants labelled. Photograph.
  • A fruiting breadfruit tree (Artocarpus altilis). Photograph.
  • Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): tree bearing flowers and fruit. Coloured lithograph, 1812, after J. Forbes, 1780.
  • Mango (Mangifera indica L.): fruiting tree, leaves, fruit, flower, seed and cross-section of seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Animals and plants from the East Indies, including chinese citron or natsumikan, jak fruit, nam-nam tree, bilimbi tree, betel nuts and filander. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.
  • Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.
  • Workers harvesting sago in a tropical wooded glade with a bilimbi tree, a sago palm, a durian tree and a pepper plant. Engraving, c. 1777.
  • A tree branch with large blue fruit, also some young leaves. Watercolour.
  • Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum L.): fruiting branch and separate numbered inflorescence and seeds. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.