Nucifera Collection

American Samoa - Pago Pago - production of copra
Pago Pago, Capital of American Samoa - the cultivation of Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) for the production of copra, the dried flesh of the coconut

Sacred bean or Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Nelumbium speciosum). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse

Bourbon palm, Livistona chinensis
Bourbon palm or Chinese fan palm, Livistona chinensis. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Crimson seedcracker, Pyrenestes sanguineus sanguineus (Crimson nutcracker, Pirenestes sanguineus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William John Swainson

Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Nelumbium speciosum). Chromolithograph after a botanical drawing by Emily Eden from her Flowers from an Indian Garden: Second Series: Hope, Breidenbach Co, Dusseldorf

Sacred lotus flower, Nelumbo nucifera, in the water. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany

Sacred lotus water lily, Nelumbo nucifera
Le Nenuphar blanc de la Chine a fleurs semi-doubles. Sacred lotus water lily, Nelumbo nucifera. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus

Sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera
La Nenuphar rouge de la Chine. Sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, and Mandarin duck, Aix galericulata. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les

Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, and frog
Le Nenuphar rouge de la Chine. Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, and frog. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus

Coconut palm and Caribbean royal palm
Coconut palm tree, Cocos nucifera 1, coconut fruit a, and Caribbean royal palm, Roystonea oleracea 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Coconut tree, Cocos nucifera. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants)

The Sacred Egyptian Bean (Lotus)
The Sacred Egyptian Bean (Lotus, or Nelumbo Nucifera), engraved by Burke & Lewis after Henderson, in a book entitled The Temple of Flora by Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837)

Coconut palm in the evening sun sea beach at the grounds of Le Prince Maurice resort near Poste de Flacq June East of Mauritius

Coconut palm leaf in the evening sun sea beach at the grounds of Le Prince Maurice resort near Poste de Flacq June East of Mauritius

Coconut Plantation
The largest coconut plantation in Fiji, at Taveuni Point, Pacific Islands. Date: 1930s

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