Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms: Plants and Trees

No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.

Extensive searches of scholarly catalogs (including UNESCO Index Translationum), Open Library, and Google Books yielded no records of an English translation for the 'Sancai Tuhui' or its 'Plants and Trees' (Caomu) section. While fragments and scholarly excerpts are known to be cited in specialized works such as Joseph Needham's 'Science and Civilisation in China', no standalone or complete English translation has been published. The work's massive scale (106 chapters) makes a full translation historically unlikely, confirming this as a first English translation of the specified section.

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