Caprifoliaceae Collection

Lonicera periclymenum, honeysuckle
One of the 36 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the North Hall at the Natural History Museum, London

Knightia excelsa, rewarewa honeysuckle tree
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illlustration annotated Brabejum sparsum

Lonicera sp. honeysuckle
Plate 99 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Viburnum opulus L. guelder rose
Viburnum opulus L. a member of the Caprifoliaceae family, cited by Linnaeus under his description of that name in Species Plantarum in 1753

Lonicera caprifolium, Dutch honeysuckle
Folio 21 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Scabiosa columbaria, scabious
Scabious in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Derek Adams, July 2004

Contopus virens, eastern wood pewee
Plate 115 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Cinnyris asiatica, purple sunbird
Plate 14, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Knightia excelsa, rewarewa
Engraving after original drawing by Ferdinand Bauer from Transactions of the Linnean Society Vol. 10, Tab 2. P.194

Ranunculus asiaticus (flower) Aesculus pavia (fruit) Viburnu
Sketch 254 from the Ehret Collection of Sketches (unbound) by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Lonicera caprifolium, honeysuckle
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33

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