Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12599

    Apricot

    Date
    1682
    Creator
    Creator - Organisation
    W Rawlin, Publisher
    After
    Nehemiah Grew (1641 - 1712, British) , Botanist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (plate): 255mm
    width (plate): 188mm
    height (page): 345mm
    width (page): 223mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
    Description
    Botanical study of the fruit of the apricot. Cross section showing the arrangement of cells, with the seed at the centre.

    Inscribed ‘Tab 82. The young Fruit, Three Membranes, & Seed now loose’

    Plate 83 from The anatomy of plants by Nehemiah Grew printed by W Rawlins (London, 1682).

    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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