Ananas Collection

Ananas aculeatus, pineapple
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Ananas comosus, pineapple
A photograph of the detail from one of the decorative ceiling panels from the roof of the Natural History Museums Central Hall. Showing Ananas comosus, pineapple

Ananas comosus (pineapple) & Philaethria dido
Pineapple tree (Ananas comosus) with butterfly, caterpillar & crysalis (Philaethria dido). Plate 2 from Metamorphosis Insectorum (1705) by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717)

Musk melon, watermelon and pineapple
Musk melon, Cucumis melo, watermelon, Citrullus vulgaris, and pineapple, Ananas comosus. Copperplate engraving by A. Smith after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his

Tropical fruits, fruits de serre chaude ou temperee. Guava, Psidium guajava 1, passionfruit, Passiflora caerulea 2, pineapple, Ananas comosus 3, pomegranate, Puncia granatum 4 and prickly pear

Marking nut and pinuela fruit
Marking nut, Semecarpus anacardium 1 and penguin or pinuela fruit, Bromelia pinguin 2. Anacardier, Ananas sauvage. Handcoloured steel engraving from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire

Areca palm, pineapple and jackfruit
Areca palm tree, Dypsis lutescens 1, pineapple, Ananas comosus 3, and jackfruit, Artocarpus heterophyllus 4. Handcoloured copperplate drawn

Ananas sp
Plate 929 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Otaheite or Tahitian pineapple, Ananas species.. Handcolored copperplate engraving by Watts of a botanical painting by Mrs. Augusta Withers from John Lindleys Pomological Magazine 1827

Wave-leaved pineapple, Ananas debilis.. Handcolored copperplate engraving by Watts of a botanical painting by Mrs. Augusta Withers from John Lindleys Pomological Magazine 1827

Pineapple plant - Malaysia
Huge Pineapple plant - Malaysia - not quite the type one would expect to pick up in Morrisons...!! Date: circa 1920s

Pineapple with insects
Plate 2 from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium by Maria Sybilla Merian

Ananas sp. pineapple
Plate 166 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Tropical Fruits
Plate 51 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 12, Hort. Atlas (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Fruits de Serre Temperee et Serre Chaude

Ananas sativas
From a collection of original drawings and sketches by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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