Alnus Collection

Alnus glutinosa (Willd. ) XXI 4, alder
An illustration of alder tree fruit and foliage from the Natural History Museum Botany Library Plate Collection

Alnus glutinosa (W. ) DCXXXI, alder
An illustration of an alder tree, fruit and foliage from the Natural History Museum Botany Library Plate Collection

Berry-bearing alder tree, Frangula alnus (Rhamnus frangula). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1795

Common alder tree, Betula alnus, and frizzled bartramia, Bartramia crispa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Sydenham Edwards from John Mason Goods Pantologia, a New Encyclopedia, G

Alder buckthorn or glossy buckthorn, Frangula alnus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattiolis Discorsi di P.A

Gooseberry, Ribes uva-crispa, and alder buckthorn, Rhamnus frangula. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Chinese buckthorn, Frangula alnus
La Frangula de la Chine. Chinese buckthorn, Frangula alnus

Alder buckthorn, Frangula alnus (Rhamnus frangula). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr

Curtis British Entomology Plate 703
Lepidoptera: Hybernia defoliaria = Erannis defoliaria (Mottled Umber) [Plant: Alnus glutinosa (Alder)] Date: 1824-39

Turnera ulmifolia var. angustifolia, yellow alder
Drawing by J.S. Miller [pl. 269]. Image used in The Chelsea Gardener Philip Miller (1990) by Hazel Le Rougetel, plate 8

Alder fly in Baltic amber
Alder fly, Megaloptera: Sialoidea in Baltic amber. Specimen dates from the Upper Eocene

Alnus glutinosa, alder tree
A mature alder tree in winter photographed by Pat Hart

Alnus glutinosa, alder
Alder trees in winter photographed by Pat Hart

Pleistocene Britain, Swanscombe waterhole
Diorama of Pleistocene (1.8 million to 11, 000 years ago) waterhole in Swanscombe, Kent, Britain, with elephant, fallow deer, rhinoceros, bear, bison, and man living in open grassland. See image 405

Loxia leucoptera, white-winged crossbill
Plate 364 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

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