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
width (print): 225mm
Subject
Content object
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.
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.
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