Dicot Collection (page 6)

Adenia heterophylla, lacewing vine
Plate 60 from Botanical Drawings from Australia (1801) by Ferdinand L Bauer (1760-1826)

Banyan tree, St. Thomas, West Indies 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Fragaria sp. strawberry
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a strawberry (Fragaria sp.), artificially coloured by computer

Lavandula angustifolia, common lavender
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Echium pininana, tower of jewels
The flower spikes of this plant can grow up to 3 metres and has hundreds of purple blue flowers in summer

Acrocinus longimanus, harlequin beetle and Citrus medica, et

Paeonia humilis. Dried specimen taken from the museum herbarium. Cultivated at Boxford Suffolk by Miss Jenny Robinson. Source probably South of France

Ceriops tagal, yellow mangrove tree
Outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage, 1768-1771. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

The Furze Platt Hand Axe
The Furze Platt hand axe from the Acheulian culture (Lower Palaeolithic) about 400, 000 years ago. Found in Britain in 1919 the hand axe weighs 2.8 kilos and is 30.6 cm long

Prunus padus L. XXV 95, bird cherry
An illustrative plate of a a bird cherry tree, flowers and fruit, taken from the 1913 botanical work Icones Florae Germanicae by Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbachof

Turnera ulmifolia var. angustifolia, yellow alder
Drawing by J.S. Miller [pl. 269]. Image used in The Chelsea Gardener Philip Miller (1990) by Hazel Le Rougetel, plate 8

Syringa vulgaris, common lilac
Drawing by Richard Lancake. Image used in The Chelsea Gardener Philip Miller (1990) by Hazel Le Rougetel, plate 2

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

Annona glabra, pond apple

Psidium pyriferum, red guava
Illustration by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Caryophyllus aromaticus, clove
Plate 64 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Prunus sp. large common whiteheart cherry
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Gros bigarreau commun

Strix aluco, tawny owl
Plate 68 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 2 (1925)

Nymphaea capensis var. zanzibariensis, cape blue waterlily
Drawing by Arthur Harry Church, 1907. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Plate 133

Artocarpus chaplasha, chapalish
Leaves and fruit of the chapalish tree (Artocarpus chaplasha). Illutration from the John Fleming collection

Fran Kern with herbarium specimen
Fran Kern a botanist at the Natural History Museum, London. The specimen featured is Nymphaea candida C. Presl, candid water lily collected in Sweden

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

Rosa centifolia anglica rubra, Cumberland rose
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) from Les Roses Vol. 1, 1817. Illustration entitled Rosier de Cumberland

Magnolia grandifolra, southern magnolia
Plate 26 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

Phasianus colchicus elegans, common pheasant
Plate 58 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Plantae selectae cereus, night blooming cactus
Sketch 31 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. Picture shows close up of flower

Phasianus colchicus shawii, common pheasant
Plate 51 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Calestrina argolus, holly blue butterfly
Holly blue butterflies probably with a coral bean plant (Erythrina herbacea) by John Abbot (1751-1840)

Prunus sp. plum (The Imperatrice Plum)
Plate 4 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Balanites aegyptiaca, desert date or bito tree
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Porana oeningen, fossil flower
Fossil flower from the late Miocene Tortonian rocks of Oeningen, Baden, Germany. Morning glory family - Convolvulaceae. Specimen from the Van Breda Collection

Mentha arvensis, mint
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Bruguiera gymnorrhiza, orange mangrove tree
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outine drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Barringtonia calyptrata, mango pine tree
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outine drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Rosa noisettiana purpurea, pink noisette
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) from Les Roses Vol. 1, 1817. Illustration entitled Rosier noisette a fleurs rouges

Rosa gallica regalis, Royal Highness provins rose
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) from Les Roses Vol. 1, 1817. Illustration entitled Rosier Grandeur Royale

Rosa damascena celsiana, Celss rose
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) from Les Roses Vol. 1, 1817. Illustration entitled Rosier de Cels

Papaver somniferum, opium poppy
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33

Viola tricolor, pansy
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33. Illustration entitled Bouquet de Pensees

Jasminum grandiflorum, Spanish jasmine
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33

Campanula rotundifolia, harebell

Replicas of the Koh-I-Noor diamond
Replicas of the Kor-i-noor diamond created from cubic zirconia by John Nels Hatleberg

Mesembryanthemum calamiforme L. Var
Plate 4 from a bound volume of drawings (mostly on vellum) illustrating the genus Mesembryanthemum. Watercolour on vellum, 1776-1778 by Ann Lee (1753-1790)

Ficus benghalensis and squirrel
Bodycolour and watercolour on board, c. 1779. Unknown artist commissined by Mrs Wheler (fl.1780s). Held in the Library and Archives Date: circa 1779

Nymphaea odorata var. minor
Plate 45. Watercolour on paper, 1901 by Mrs Hosea B. Morse (Annie Josephine Wexford) (1853-1940). Held in the Library and Archives Date: 1901

Uvariastrum zenkeri
Plate 52. Watercolour on paper, 1911 by Dorothy Talbot (1871-1916). Held in the Library and Archives Date: 1911

Inula helenium, elecampane
Page 27 from a volume of botanical drawings. Watercolour on paper, 1815 by Frances Anna M. Phillipps (1786-1863). Held in the Library and Archives Date: 1815

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, hibiscus
Bodycolour on board, 1847-51 by Isobel Drought (fl.1847-51). Held in the Library and Archives Date: 1847

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