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Tillandsia filifolia Schltdl. & Cham.
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Tillandsia filifolia Schltdl. & Cham.

· Collected April 1829; det. Carl Mez, 1894

This is a herbarium type specimen — a pressed, dried botanical plant mounted on archival paper — not a cartoon or caricature. The sheet shows Tillandsia filifolia, a thread-leaved bromeliad native to Central America and Mexico, collected in 1829 and cited in a monograph on Bromeliaceae. Annotations, a color-calibration chart, barcode labels, and a metric scale are standard herbarium documentation tools. No satirical tradition, printmaking technique, or caricature content is present or can honestly be described here. Writing a wall label framing this as political satire would be invention. This object belongs in a natural history or botanical illustration exhibition, not one on comic art ancestry.

About this artifact

Date
Collected April 1829; det. Carl Mez, 1894
Rights
Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
Restoration
Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.

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