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Saffron
Mota massyla
Saffron (Mota massyla) is a species of blue butterfly found in South East Asia.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
The Flowering Garden: Autumn
Crispijn van de Passe · 1616 · p.64
Tractado de las Drogas y Medicinas de las Indias Orientales
Cristóvão da Costa · 1578 · p.287
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.142
Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.117
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.269
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.267
Garden of Health
1507 · p.115
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.475
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.614
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.671
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.73
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.831
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 787142.