Naturalist decorative board, brings a scientific touch to your interior - Orange tree by Charles d'Orbigny

Reproduction engraving of: Lime orange tree (Citrus limonium, Risso.)

Illustration taken from the Universal Dictionary of Natural History, written under the direction of Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny (1806-1876) and published from 1841 to 1849.

This work, considered one of the major achievements of the 19th century in terms of scientific synthesis and quality popularization, wonderfully illustrating the great beauty and impressive diversity of the biological world, was supplemented by a certain amount of scientific information, some extracts of which are reproduced below.

Important note: the scientific classification elements of the time have been preserved as they are and may of course be obsolete today.

Scientific classification and description of the species present in the engraving:

Class of Dicotyledonous Plants
Subclass Polypetales
Subdivision of Polypetales-hypogynes
Order Hypogynae-Axospermae
Aurantiaceae family
Lime orange tree (Citrus limonium, Risso.l.
• Reduced by half.
Fig. 1. Whole button.
Fig 2. Isolated portion of stamen.
Fig. 3. Cross section of an anther.
Fig. 4. Flower of which only the calyx and the pistil have been preserved.
Fig. 5. The same, with half the calyx removed to show the entire pistil and the marks of the insertion of the stamens.
Fig. 6. Cross section of the ovary.
Fig. 7. Longitudinal section of the same.
Fig. 8. A dry pollen grain, magnified to 390 diameters.
Fig. 9. Another grain in the water.
Fig. 10. Cross-section of a fruit cell. The large utricles which enclose the pulp do not clearly show their arrangement: on young ovaries, we see that they come from a kind of articulated hairs which have developed on the external part of the cell.
Fig. 11. A whole seed.
Fig. 12. Section of a seed in which two embryos can be seen.