The Herbarium

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Jessica Roux

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Hedera helix, common ivy is a very important plant for the ecosystem: it flowers in late autumn, when only few flowers are in bloom, the bees love it. Also it have berries for almost all the winter, when food is scarce, and many birds, like blackbird, eat them.

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Marian Ellis Rowan (Australian, 1848 - 1922): Barringtonia (c. 1891) (via National Gallery of Victoria)

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Catnip. Nouvelle botanique médicale comprenant les plantes des jardins et des champs susceptibles d'être employées dans l'art de guérir - Tome 2 - E. Lesacher et M.-A.-A. Mareschal - c.1876-1883 - via Gallica 

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Plant study of a Red Morning Glory and Blueberries, 1700s, Austria.

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Botanical illustrations (London, 1759) by Timothy Sheldrake. Coloured line engravings by C. H. Hemerich,

1) White Briony (Bryonia dioica Jacq.)

2) The Balaustine - Pomegranate (Punica granatum)

3) The Great White Bind Weed - Morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea)

4) Asarabacca (Asarum europaeum)

5) The Sweet Gum (Cistus of Candy) - Rockrose (Cistus ladanifer)

6) Jasmine or Jessamy (Jasminum officinale )

7) Corn Blue Bottle, Cornflower or Bachelor’s-buttons (Centaurea cyanus)

8) Saffron crocus (Crocus sativus)

9) Starwort, Michaelmas daisy (Aster amellus)

10) Common Wood Betony (Stachys officinalis).

Images and text information courtesy Wellcome Collection.

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) terms and conditions https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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“Poison Oak”, Ferdinand W. Haasis, 1948

Watercolor on paper

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1) Poppy

2) Mandrake

3) Lavender

4) Peach

5) Wild Purslane

6) Purslane

7) Turcicum

8) Foxglove

Illustrations taken from De historia stirpivm commentarii… (1543) by L.Fuchs. Illustrations by Albrecht Meyer, Heinricus Füllmaurer and Veit Rudolph Speckle

These files are from Wellcome Images

licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Wikimedia

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In fall I found of the plants Laurens painted at a butterfly garden in Victoria BC. Mimosa pudica closes up when touched to avoid being harmed or grazed on.

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Extreme Botany: The Precarious Science of Endangered Rare Plants

They don’t make the headlines the way charismatic animals such as rhinos and elephants do. But there are thousands of critically endangered plants in the world, and a determined group of botanists are ready to go to great lengths to save them.

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Arum maculatum (Cuckoo-pint, Lords and Ladies).

Illustration taken from ’Flora regni Borussici - Flora des Königreichs’ by Dr Albert Dietrich.

Published 1836 by Ludwig Ochmigke.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Prepping demos for my botanical art class at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Donna Torres.

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Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum). Southwell Trail, Notts.  November 2015.

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Flora: Inside the Secret World of Plants

“Flora is an elegant new introduction to botany and the plants that populate our planet. It's packed with dramatic photography of some of Kew's most fascinating and beautiful plants from the Gardens, nurseries and glasshouses, illustrating in breath-taking quality the structure, biology and environmental adaptability of plants, from root to tip.

With fascinating stories of how plants communicate with each other, Flora offers an engaging introduction to the extraordinary diversity of the plant kingdom and is an excellent gift or reference for any adult or young adult with an interest in the natural world.”

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Annie Ovenden

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Scottish Plant Lore: an Illustrated Flora By Gregory Kenicer

“Scottish Plant Lore is a beautifully illustrated, lavish new hardback book devoted to the history of the folk uses of Scotland’s flora down through the centuries. Illustrated with both period and contemporary botanical art as well as photographs from the RBGE Herbarium, it combines some of the latest research with a celebration of the rich social and natural history that has gone before.”