Aloe yucca and tiger aloe
Aloe yucca or Spanish bayonet, Yucca aloifolia 1, and tiger aloe or partridge-breasted aloe, Gonialoe variegata 2. Yucca aloefolia, Aloe variegata. The botanicals were drawn by Henriette and Conrad Westermayr, F. Gotz and C. Ermer. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1, 200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. published from 1790-1830
Picture No
14009068
Media ID
45828809
Size
5080px x 6510px
(6.4MB)
Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
Source
German school
