Diospyros Collection

Aphelocoma coerulescens, Florida scrub jay
Plate 87 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Date plum, Diospyros lotus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Fossil shell of baculite or walking stick rock, an extinct cephalopod mollusc genus. Baculites vertebralis. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Japanese persimmon variety, Costata, Diospyros kaki. Chromolithograph by Hoen after a botanical illustration by D.G. Passmore from the Report of the Pomologist, US Department of Agriculture, 1892

Bladdernut or wild coffee, Diospyros whyteana (Shining royena, Royena lucida). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards Botanical

Malabar ebony, Diospyros malabarica
Malabar ebony, tindooka, gab or gaub tree, Diospyros malabarica (Diospyros embryopteris). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Diospyros sp. ebony tree
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Black plum or yellow persimmon, Diospyros australis or Cargillia australis.. Illustration drawn by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan

Diospyros embryopteris
One of the 162 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum, London

Diospyros lotus, date plum
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

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