An oleander plant (Nerium oleander): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after A. Bétrérnieux (?).

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One leaf of an oleander plant is a potentially lethal dose with death within 24 hours, it is used in rat poison

Paris (Rue des Grands-Augustins 19) : Berrieux; London (10 Chandos St. Covent Garden) : Victor Delarue (Paris : Lemercier)

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour.

Laurier rose. Macédoines variées no. 75. Aphe Bétrérnieux Print is signed indistinctly at bottom right, possibly "Aphe Bétrérnieux"

Wellcome Collection 27086i

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