Thorny Stem Botanical Illustration | Plant Anatomy Reference #288164 (License: Personal Use)

This precise line illustration depicts a vertical plant stem featuring three prominent, sharply pointed thorns emerging at intervals along its length. The texture of the stem is rendered with fine stippling and linear shading to indicate bark ridges and surface detail, characteristic of 19th- or early 20th-century scientific botanical art. The thorns are shown in cross-section at their base, revealing their origin from the stem’s epidermal tissue.

Used in educational botanical texts, horticultural websites, plant identification keys, and historical archive digitization projects; serves users seeking anatomical clarity for thorn-bearing species like roses, acacias, or citrus.