Bixa Orellana

Bixa Orellana

Bixa Orellana, the plant used in production of achiote oil

This is a reproduction of a drawing of Bixa Orellana by Salvador Rizo Blanco for Real Jardin Botanico: Dibujos de la Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada (1783-1816), directed by J.C. Mutis. One of the purposes of Mutis's project was to gather botanical data about the new plants being discovered, allowing for identification of these plants and knowledge about the usefulness of any of these plants. In the case of Bixa Orellana, one such use has come to be achiote oil.

Salvador Rizo Blanco

-http://www.rjb.csic.es/icones/mutis/paginas/
-Real Jardin Botanico: Dibujos de la Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada (1783-1816), dirigida por J.C. Mutis

-Tracing by Ellen Jennings of image of Bixa Orellana found on the website http://www.rjb.csic.es/icones/mutis/paginas/

Real Jardín Botánico (CSIC)

The Real Jardin Botanico: Dibujos de la Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada (1783-1816), dirigida por J.C. Mutis was produced over the years of 1783-1816

J. C. Mutis

Patrick Jennings

http://www.rjb.csic.es/icones/mutis/paginas/comocitarrecurso.php

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The image from The Real Jardin Botanico: Dibujos de la Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada (1783-1816), dirigida por J.C. Mutis was traced by Ellen Jennings and scanned onto the computer. It is a JPEG file, 2048 pixels wide by 2048 pixels long.

Spanish

Botany

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Drawing

54.6 cm by 37.9 cm