biomedicalephemera:

Fruits Exotiques

Including guava, papaya, mango, litchi fruit, passionfruit, pineapple, breadfruit, bergamot orange, coconut, and several other fruits, primarily from the equatorial Western hemisphere.

Histoire Naturelle Ilustree: Les Plantes.Julien Costantin and F. Faideau, 1922

biomedicalephemera:

unnaturalist:

by Alexandre-Isidore Leroy de Barbe (1777-1828)

That’s quite the curio case for the 18th century!