Balm Collection

Melissa officinalis, lemon balm
A painting from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Singapore - Tiger Balm Garden (Haw Par Villa theme park), built in 1937 Date: circa 1938

Bastard balm, Melissa adulterina, and lesser calamint, Clinopodium nepeta. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Water horehound, Lycopus europaeus, and lemon balm, Melissa officinalis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Wild bergamot or bee balm, Monarda fistulosa (Monarda purpurea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1828

Lemon balm or balm mint, Melissa officinalis. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler

Large-flowered calamint, Clinopodium grandiflorum (Great flower d balm, Melissa grandiflora). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1793

Balm of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis (Balsamodendrum opobalsamum). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Balsam fir, Abies balsamea
Balsam fir or balm of Gilead fir, Abies balsamea (Pinus balsamea). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Arabian balsam tree, Commiphora gileadensis
Arabian balsam tree or balm of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis (Balsamodendron ehrenbergianum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr

Lemon balm, Melissa officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Curtis British Entomology Plate 719
Lepidoptera: Ederesa semitestacella Curtis = Argyresthia semitestacella (Curtis), Testaceous White-back [Plant: Melittis melissophyllum var. grandiflora (Bastard Balm)] Date: 1824-39

Hong Kong, China - The Tiger Pagoda
The 7-storey Tiger Pagoda, the highlight of the Tiger Balm Garden (Aw Boon Haw Garden), on the Tai Hang Road, Tai Hang, Wan Chai District, Hong Kong, opened in 1935

Singapore - The Haw Par Villa
Singapore - The magnificent seven-domed Haw Par Villa, a Chinese mythological theme park. The park, originally called " Tiger Balm Gardens"

The fuselage of Lt Spenser Greys two-seat Mercury III outside the Balm Road, Leeds, works ready for despatch to Brooklands in December 1911. Date: 1911

Dr. Fontains balm of thousand flowers

Melissa Grandiflora
Great Flowered Balm

Langtry Balm - named after the popular actress from Jersey - is not a powder, does not contain powder, but is far superior to face powders

Melissa Officinalis
COMMON BALM

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