Caryophyllales Collection (page 2)

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

Lychnis coronaria, prick nose
Watercolour 19 by Arthur Harry Church, 12 July 1905. Plate 171

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)

Dionaea muscipula, venus flytrap
A carnivorous plant which traps insects when they walk over specialist trigger hairs. The leaves snap closed and stay closed until the insect has been digested

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

Nephenthes sp. pitcher plant
A carnivorous plant attracting insects with sweet nectar on the top of the pitcher. The surface is slippery and the insects fall in. Unable to climb out, the prey is digested by enzymes

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

Drosera
Sundew. A carniviorous bog plant which collects insects by secreting a sticky substance on fine hairs on the leaves which is also acidic, digesting the trapped insect

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

Celosia cristata, cockscomb
Plate 706b from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1795-1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Celosia cernua, cockscomb
Plate 706 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1795-1805. 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

Silene californica, Indian pink
Folio 52 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Dianthus caryophyllus, various carnations
Folio 45 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Persicaria sp. knotweed
Folio 47 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Amaranthus caudatus, love-lies-bleeding

Arenaria norvegica, Norwegian sandwort
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Cliftonia monophylla, buckwheat tree

Drosera binata, forked sundew
Plate 45 from Botanical Drawings from Australia (1801) by Ferdinand L Bauer (1760-1826)

Limonium recurvum, sea lavendar
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Nepenthes sp. pitcher plant
The carnivorous pitcher plant is abundant in degraded forest in Sri Lanka

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)

Amaranthus tricolor, Josephs coat
Folio 63 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Silene dioica, red campion
Red campion in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Derek Adams, July 2004

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

Oporornis agilis, Connecticut warbler
Plate 138 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Rheum x rhbarbarum, rhubarb
Sketch 87 from the Ehret Collection of Sketches (unbound) by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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

Dionaea muscipula, venus fly trap
Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum by John Miller, 1772. Original artwork held at the Natural History Museum, London

Carnation
Illustration from Flora Exotica (1720) by Johann Gottfried Simula. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

(1) tarragon (2) salad burnet (3) garden leek (4) sorrel (5)
Plate 9 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 12, Hort. Atlas, 1870. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Plantes potageres de divers usages

Chenopodium album, goosefoot
Scanning electron microscope image of a pollen grain from a member of the goosefoot family (x 3000 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Drosera peltata, sundew
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Bougainvillea spectabilis, paper flower
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Calyxis ternaria

Sesuvium portulacastrum, sea purslane
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

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

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