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"Turcicum frumentum - Türkisch Korn" [Indian corn]. Hand-colored woodcut by Albrecht Meyer. From "De historia stirpium commentarii insignes," by Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1586). Basel: Isingrin Press, 1542. This is the first printed illustration of "Zea mays" (Indian corn), a New World native that Fuchs thought to have come from Turkey.
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The LuEsther T. Mertz Library/The New York Botanical Garden/
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ART308038
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Public
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3178px × 4365px
Photo Credit
The LuEsther T. Mertz Library, NYBG / Art Resource, NY
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16th century CE
Botanical Study
Botany
Corn
Fuchs, Leonhart (1501-1566)
German
Maize
New World
Plant
Renaissance
Vegetable
Woodcut