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Of the Dragon Tree

  • 1633

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1. Draco arbor. The Dragon tree.
2. Draconis fructus. The Dragon tree fruit.

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) "This strange and admirable tree groweth very great, resembling the Pine tree by reason it doth alwaies flourish, and hath his boughes or branches of equal length and bignesse, which are bare and naked, of eight or nine cubits long, and of the bignesse of a mans arme..."
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Gerard, John, Rembert Dodoens, and Iacobus Theodorus. “Of the Dragon Tree.” In The Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes. London, England: Thomas Johnson, 1633. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/nfoc3cg.

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