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ATTRIBUTED TO VINCENZO LEONARDI (1590-C. 1648)

Deformed melon

c. 1630-40

RCIN 919365

Many of the drawings in Cassiano’s ‘paper museum’ are notable for the clarity with which the specimens are depicted. This sheet shows at actual size two views, external and cross-section, of an anomalous ‘twin’ melon, a single fruit that has grown abnormally due to two ovaries on the same flower developing simultaneously after pollination.


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