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Of the Date Tree

  • 1633

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[Left]: Palma. The Date tree.
[Right]: Palmarum fructus & flores cum Elate. The fruit and foures of the Date tree.

Illustrations for The Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes compiled by John Gerard (1545-1612) from works by Turner, Rembert Dodoens, Iacobus Theodorus, Pena and L'Obel. This English botanical book includes numerous woodcuts of plants. Woodcuts selected for digitization depict varieties of poppy, anemone, dragon fruit, and bananas, as well as cherry, fig, and date trees.

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  • (Beneath illustrations) "The Date tree groweth very great and high : the body or trunke thereof is thicke, and covered with a scaly rugged barke, caused by the falling away of the leaves : the boughes grow onely on the top, consisting of leaves set upon a wooddy middle rib like those of Reeds or Flags : the inner part of which rib or stale is soft, light, hollow, and spongie."
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Gerard, John, Rembert Dodoens, and Iacobus Theodorus. “Of the Date Tree.” In The Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes. London, England: Thomas Johnson, 1633. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/6lmxu67.

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