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Inula Collection

Background imageInula Collection: Golden samphire, Limbarda crithmoides

Golden samphire, Limbarda crithmoides (Samphire-leaved fleabane, Inula crithmoides). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany

Background imageInula Collection: Telekia and Rudbeckia species

Telekia and Rudbeckia species
Showy telekia, Telekia speciosa, glandulous elecampane, Inula glandulosa, trifoliate siliphium, Siliphium trifoliatum, Ratibida columnaris, pinnated rudbeckia, Rudbeckia pinnata

Background imageInula Collection: Elecampane, Inula helenium, and gentian species

Elecampane, Inula helenium, and gentian species. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Background imageInula Collection: Ploughmans spikenard, Inula conyza

Ploughmans spikenard, Inula conyza (Conyza squarrosa). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Background imageInula Collection: Elecampane or horseheal, Inula helenium

Elecampane or horseheal, Inula helenium. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Background imageInula Collection: Elecampane, violet, ipecacuanha and ipomoea

Elecampane, violet, ipecacuanha and ipomoea
Elecampane, Inula helenium 1-3, green violet, Hybanthus species Ionidium polygalifolium 4-6, ipecacuanha, Carapichea ipecacuanha 7-9, and morning glory, Ipomoea insignis 10

Background imageInula Collection: Inula orientalis

Inula orientalis (Glandulous inula, Inula glandulosa). Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims Curtiss Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1816

Background imageInula Collection: Elecampane, Inula helenium

Elecampane, Inula helenium. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Background imageInula Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 693

Curtis British Entomology Plate 693
Hemiptera: *Capsus hirtus Curtis, cf. Capsus ater (black form) [Plant: Inula helenium (Elecampane)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageInula Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 277

Curtis British Entomology Plate 277
Diptera: Nycteribia latreillii = Nycteribia kolenatii (Small Bat-louse) [Plant: Inula conyza (Conyza squarrosa, Great Flea-bane)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageInula Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 243

Curtis British Entomology Plate 243
Coleoptera: Hydrobius chalconotus = Hydrobius fuscipes (Salt-water Hydrobius) [Plant: Inula crithmoides (Samphire-leaved Fleabane)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageInula Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 198

Curtis British Entomology Plate 198
Hymenoptera: Anomalon vesparum = Sphecopgaga vesparum (Wasps? Ichneumon) [Plant: Pulicaria vulgaris (Inula pulicaria, Less Fleabane)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageInula Collection: Inula helenium, elecampane

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

Background imageInula Collection: Several large dark green leaves and three thick

Several large dark green leaves and three thick stems of the Inula helenium plant.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants

Background imageInula Collection: Small leaves and a large yellow flower atop

Small leaves and a large yellow flower atop a single stem. Inula helenium.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Background imageInula Collection: Large root cluster and base of leaves and stems

Large root cluster and base of leaves and stems of the Inula helenium plant.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Background imageInula Collection: Four opposing leaves on a single stem of Inula helenium

Four opposing leaves on a single stem of Inula helenium.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Background imageInula Collection: Digitalis purpurea, foxglove

Digitalis purpurea, foxglove
One of the 36 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the North Hall at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageInula Collection: Inula helenium, elfwort

Inula helenium, elfwort
One of the 36 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the North Hall at the Natural History Museum, London


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