Areca Collection

Betelnut palm, Areca catechu
Betelnut palm, goovaka or pinang, Areca catechu. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Areca sp
Plate 987 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Palm tree species
Palm tree and tropical species including sago, coconut, breadfruit, pepper, pineapple, agave, sea coconut, areca, manicaria, etc

Areca nut palm tree, Areca catechu, Arec a cachou. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lagesse after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Peanut, areca nut palm and Trisidos semitorta
Peanut or groundnut plant, Arachis hypogaea 1, areca nut palm, Areca catechu 2, and bivalve mollusc Arca semi-torta, Trisidos semitorta 3. Arachide, Aree, Arche

Princess palm, Dictyosperma album var. aureum (Areca aurea). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

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

Dragons blood palm and areca palm trees
Dragons blood palm, Daemonorops draco 1, and areca palm, Areca catechu 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after C. Franck from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Areca catechu L. betel nut palm
Illustration of the betel nut palm tree with a study of the betel nut. Artist unknown. Plate held in the Botany Library plate collection, the Natural History Museum, London

Chrysalidocarpus lutescens, areca palm
Fig 11. The Areca Palm, illustration probably from an edition of the Gardeners Chronicle. Artwork held in the Natural History Museums Botany Library

Cycas media, nut palm

Areca catechu, betel nut
Plate 46 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held iat the Natural History Museum, London

All about Betel chewing
Watercolour by Olivia Fanny Tonge 1858-1949. 180 x 260mm. From one of sixteen sketchbooks presented to the Museum in 1952

Arera catechu, figure from Descriptiones Fruticum et Arborum
This volume, by Georg Joseph Camel, was held in the library of Sir Hans Sloane

Areca Sapida or Feather Duster Palm
Areca Sapida (Rhopalostylis Sapida, Kentia Sapida) or Feather Duster Palm (Nikau Palm), a flowering tree with pink flowers. 1888

Betel Nut Seller
A vendor of betel - the leaves of the plant are wrapped round parings of the areca nut and a little lime, which is then chewed and chewed and chewed

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