Cacti Collection (page 2)

Echinocacte hexaedrophorus
Illustration from Iconographie Des Cactees (1841-1847) by Charles Antoine Lemaire. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Mammillaria dolichocentra, cactus
Illustration from Iconographie Des Cactees (1841-1847) by Charles Antoine Lemaire. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Echinocactus horizonthalonius, devils head cactus
Illustration from Iconographie Des Cactees (1841-1847) by Charles Antoine Lemaire. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Echinocactus concinnus, sun cup
Illustration from Iconographie Des Cactees (1841-1847) by Charles Antoine Lemaire. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Harrisia sp. night-blooming cereus
Unsigned artwork from c. 1700s. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Melocactus caroli-linnaei, melocactus
Illustration from the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. This illustration is thought to have been made by Simon Taylor (1742-1796)

Echinocactus erinaceus, cactus
Illustration from Iconographie Des Cactees (1841-1847) by Charles Antoine Lemaire. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Echinocactus myriostigma, bishops cap cactus
Illustration from Iconographie Des Cactees (1841-1847) by Charles Antoine Lemaire. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Cereus perrotetianus, lady of the night cactus
Illustration from Iconographie Des Cactees (1841-1847) by Charles Antoine Lemaire. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Mammillaria erecta, cactus
Illustration from Iconographie Des Cactees (1841-1847) by Charles Antoine Lemaire. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Echinocactus monvillii, cactus
Illustration from Iconographie Des Cactees (1841-1847) by Charles Antoine Lemaire. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Parodia sellowii, cactus
Illustration from Iconographie Des Cactees (1841-1847) by Charles Antoine Lemaire. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Echinocactus sellowianus

Echinocactus sellowianus
Illustration from Iconographie Des Cactees (1841-1847) by Charles Antoine Lemaire. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Opuntia camachoi, prickly pear cactus
Figure 30 from Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 1932-33, by Professor Carlos Porter

Opunita fiscus-indica, prickly pear
An oil painting of a prickly pear (Opunita fiscus-indica). The artist and date are unknown. Original canvas held at the Natural History Museum, London

Pooecetes gramineus, vesper sparrow
Plate 94 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Euphorbia canariensis, Canary Island spurge
Illustration from Flora Exotica (1720) by Johann Gottfried Simula. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Cactaceae, cacti a. Opuntia ficus-indica, b. Opuntia cochinili
Illustration of various prickly pear cacti. Plate 664 from the Fleming Collection of Indian Drawings, 1800. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Amazilia violiceps, violet-crowned hummingbird
Plate 285, hand coloured lithograph from A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, (1861) by John Gould

Geospiza scandens, common cactus finch
A specimen pair of common cactus finches (Geospiza scandens) collected in the Galapagos Islands

Euphorbia mammillaris, corn cob euphorbia
Illustration from Prludia Botanica (1703) by Caspar Commelin, of Type Specimens of plants named by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Distant mountains with snow, cactus in foreground
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Orbea variegata, toad cactus
Sketch 300 from the Ehret Collection of Sketches (unbound) by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Pereskia grandifolia, rose cactus
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Clusia dodecapetala

Village on a hill near Gaza, with cacti, WW1
A native village on a hill near Gaza during the First World War. Cacti are growing in the foreground. Date: circa 1917

Woman in black, with pearls and brooch
A woman in a hot country, dressed completely in black, apart from her white pearls and metallic brooch. Her coat is billowing above her head as if blown by the wind

Two species of Giant Cactus - California, United States

A Fine Cactus in the desert at Phoenix, Arizona with a gentleman stood alongside to give even more sense of the giant scale of the plant!

Lion in the Desert
A male lion stands alone in a desert. (panthera leo)

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