Aestivum Collection

Plants / Galanthus Nivalis
Snowdrop Depicted with Leucajum Aestivum : Snowflake

Cereal grains
Wheat, Triticum aestivum 1, rye, Secale cereale 2, barley, Hordeum distichon 3, and oats, Avena sativa 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Summer snowflake, Leucojum aestivum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Bulgar and truffle mushrooms
Black bulgar, Bulgaria inquinans, candlestick fungus, Xylaria hypoxylon, Elaphomyces muricatus (Elaphomyces variegatus), black truffle, Tuber melanosporum, and summer truffle, Tuber aestivum

Wheat, Triticum aestivum, and barley, Hordeum vulgare. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Curtis British Entomology Plate 251
Coleoptera: Leiodes cinnamomea (Truffle Beetle) [Plant: Tuber, cf. aestivum (Tuber cibarium = Lycoperdon tuber, Truffle)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 108
Coleoptera: Paederus fuscipes (New Forest Paederus) [Plant: Leucojum aestivum (Summer Snow-flake)] Date: 1824-39

Triticum aestivum, Wheat
Date: 1805

Triticum aestivum, Wheat, - Watercolour by Franz Bauer, c.1805. Longitudinal section of basal portion of juvenile plants. Paper, watercolour, signed

Stem rust, Puccinia, wheat, Triticum aestivum - By Franz Bauer. Paper, watercolour, signed. London, Natural History Museum, Library and Archives, Unfinished Drawings of Plants, vol. 6, no. 77

Truffle varieties, Tuber aestivum, and jelly babies, Leotia lubrica.. Chromolithograph from Leon Dufours Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux (1891)

Germinating seed of the radish 1-7, wheat 8 and barley 9.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures on Botany

Truffle, Tuber aestivum 1, red truffle, Melanogaster variegatus 2, and olive earth-tongue 3.. Truffle, Tuber aestivum 1, red truffle, Melanogaster variegatus 2, and olive earth-tongue

Loddon Lily
The Loddon Lily (Leucojum Aestivum), takes its name from the River Loddon in Hampshire, England. It is also known as the Summer Snowflake or Giant Snowflake. Date: 1950s

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