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Les Liliacées: Tradescantia discolor

Henry Joseph Redouté

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image shows a colored illustration of a plant with long, thin leaves. The plant has a short stem with roots at the bottom and long, thin leaves that are green on top and purple underneath. Some of the leaves are green with purple edges. There are two small white flowers on the left side of the plant. The background of the image is beige. At the bottom of the image, there are two lines of cursive text. The text on the left reads "Tradescantia Discolor". The text on the right reads "Ephemerum Discolor".

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620 × 900 px
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