Opium poppy with seedpod, Papaver somniferum 1, and Cretan milk-vetch, Astracantha cretica 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.

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