Queen sago; Cycas circinalis; showing leaf; seed and trunk. Endangered palm tree. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton; Poiret and Chamberet's La Flore Medicale; Paris; Panckoucke; 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) was one of the three giants of French botanical art of the era alongside Pierre Joseph Redoute and Pancrace Bessa.