Little tree plant or Mukkootti, Biophytum sensitivum. As sensible wood-sorrel, Oxalis sensitiva, Nepal and India. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giuseppe Bianchi after Cesare Majoli from Giovanni Hill's Decade di alberi curiosi ed eleganti piante, Decade of Curious and Elegant Trees and Plants, Nella Stamperia Salomoni, Rome, 1786. It had first been published by John Hill in London in 1773.

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