Winged bean origins

Georgius Everhardus Rumphius,

the "blind seer" of Ambon

Image scanned from Beekman, E. M. (1999) The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet, Yale University Press, New Haven. Portrait drawn by Rumphius' son, Paul Augustus, between 1695 and 1696 in Kota Ambon.

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