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Economic Botany Collections

Paper

Painting on pith paper

Painting on pith paper

Catalogue no:

33725

Botanical classification:

ARALIACEAE Tetrapanax papyriferus

Donor:

T. Watters, HM Consul

Donor date:

1882

Geographical origin:

Eastern Asia, Taiwan, Tamsui

This painting provides an example of a less common type of paper found in the Collections at Kew . The image has been painted on delicate paper made from the pith of a shrub, Tetrapanax papyrifer. It is one of many paintings collected in Tamsui, a port in northern Formosa, now known as Taiwan.

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