Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13075

    Luffas and luffa hybrid

    Date
    1865
    Creator
    Debray (French) , Engraver
    After
    Alfred Riocreux (1820, French) , Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN8171
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 294mm
    width (print): 225mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
    Description
    Botanical studies of the fruits of the Sponge gourd Luffa aegyptiaca,(here styled Luffa cylindrica) and the Ridged gourd Luffa acutangula (here styled Luffa amara). With a hybrid Luffa amaro-cylindrica.Three figures.

    Plate 6 accompanying the paper ‘Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dams les végétaux’, by Charles Naudin, Nouvelles archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.1 (Paris, 1865) pp.25-176.

    Inscribed above: ‘Nouvelles archives du Muséum. Mémoires. Tom.I Pl.6.’ Inscribed below: ‘FRUITS DE LUFFAS, de grandeur maturelle. Riocreux del. Debray sc. Imp. A. Salmon, à Paris.’

    Charles Victor Naudin (1815-1899) French botanist and pioneer of selection studies in plant-breeding.
    Associated place
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          > France
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