Clove illustration

Cloves are the flower buds of a tree native to the Maluku Islands (or Moluccas) in Indonesia. They have been used as a spice in the west for many thousands of years.

Clove illustration, drawing, 1778, unknown artist; source: Lukas Hochenleitter (ed.), Plantarum indigenarum et exoticarum icones ad vivum coloratae, oder, Sammlung nach der Natur gemalter Abbildungen inn- und ausländlischer Pflanzen, für Liebhaber und Beflissene der Botanik, Wien u.a. 1778, digital copy: Harvard Botany Libraries, Biodiversity Heritage Library digitization project, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44260597, public domain.