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Geum Collection

Background imageGeum Collection: Wood avens, Geum urbanum

Wood avens, Geum urbanum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants)

Background imageGeum Collection: Scarlet flowered Avens, Geum coccineum

Scarlet flowered Avens, Geum coccineum.. Handcolored illustration by E.D. Smith engraved by Watts from Charles McIntoshs Flora and Pomona 1829

Background imageGeum Collection: Potentilla species

Potentilla species
Hopwoods pontetilla, Potentilla hopwoodiana, dark-red potentilla, Potentilla atro-sanguineum, scarlet flowered potentilla, Geum coccineum, and mountain sieversia, Sieversia potentilla

Background imageGeum Collection: St. Benedicts Herb, Geum urbanum, and common

St. Benedicts Herb, Geum urbanum, and common rue, Ruta graveolens. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Background imageGeum Collection: Water avens, Geum rivale

Water avens, Geum rivale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Background imageGeum Collection: Alpine avens, Geum montanum

Alpine avens, Geum montanum
La Benoite des Alpes. Alpine avens, Geum montanum, and Doris longwing butterfly, Heliconius doris. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus

Background imageGeum Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 271

Curtis British Entomology Plate 271
Coleoptera: Apate capucinus = Bostrichus capucinus (Capuchin Beetle) [Plant: Geum urbanum (Common Avens)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageGeum Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 193

Curtis British Entomology Plate 193
Lepidoptera: Cerura latifasciata = Harpyia bifida (Poplar Kitten) [Plant: Geum rivale (Water Avens)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageGeum Collection: Plant watercolours by Elizabeth Twining

Plant watercolours by Elizabeth Twining
From a bound volume watercolour drawings of plants : including the originals for her Illustrations of the Natural Order of Plants. Watercolour on paper. c. 1840s by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Background imageGeum Collection: Geum Reptans (Creeping Avens)

Geum Reptans (Creeping Avens), a perennial plant of the Rosaceae family


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