Dioscorea convolvulacea Cham. & Schltdl.
· Collected 1896, State of Morelos, Mexico
This is a herbarium specimen sheet, not a political cartoon or caricature. It shows a pressed and mounted climbing plant — Dioscorea convolvulacea, a wild yam species — with heart-shaped leaves, twining stems, and slender flowering branches arranged across archival paper. Collection labels identify it as specimen 6504 from C.G. Pringle's Plantæ Mexicanæ series, determined by O. Téllez in 1993. It belongs to the Natural History Museum, London, Department of Botany. No satirical content, printmaking tradition, or caricature is present. Writing a comic-art wall label for this object would be a category error and a misrepresentation of the artifact.
About this artifact
- Date
- Collected 1896, State of Morelos, Mexico
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.
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