Petal Collection

Primula auricula, primrose
Folio 78 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Cattleya Trianae Mrs Phillips, also known as Flor de Mayo (May Flower) or Christmas Orchid (Orchidaceae family), with pink, purple and yellow colouring

Amaryllis vittata, amaryllis
Illustration No.3 by Peter Brown, c. 1760s. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Tulipa sp. various tulips
Folio 44 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Cordia sebestena, geiger tree
Engraving from Natural History of Jamaica Tab 164 by Sir Hans Sloane. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Viola tricolor, heartsease
Folio 62 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Hyoscyamus niger, black henbane
Watercolour by Arthur Harry Church, 1903. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Vanda caerulea, Himalayan orchid
Illustration from the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. This plant was thought to be extinct in 1996

Art Nouveau floral design with woman in profile Date: early 20th century

True oxlip, Primula elatior. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1798

Parts of flowers including petal, nectary, glume, seed, spathe, bracte, legumen, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Sydenham Edwards from John Mason Goods Pantologia, a New Encyclopedia

Damask rose, Rosa x damascena, and white rose, Rosa alba. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Artwork by Florence Auerbach, girl with a daisy -- He loves me, he loves me not. Date: late 19th century

Wheel of Tart Slices Date: 1935

Christmas card in the shape of a yellow pansy. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Hydatina physis, rose-petal bubble shell
Watercolour 399 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Kallee dere, from the Watling Collection

Iris Variegata, Variegated Iris. early 19th century

Black Hellebore or Christmas Rose
Helleborus Niger, Black Hellebore or Christmas Rose. early 19th century

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Women taking roses to make rose water wi
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Women taking roses to make rose water with its petals. Folio 93r

Marshalls Petal Dust Moth Preventer -- keep your furs and clothes free from ravage. circa 1910s

Tulips, engraved by Eadom after Philip Reinagle, in a book entitled The Temple of Flora by Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837). The book was published between 1799 and 1807. Date: 1798

Thespia tiliaceous
Plate 781 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library 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

Pericopsis mooniana, or Nandu Wood
Pericopsis mooniana (Nandu Wood, Nedun Tree), also known as Dalbergia lanceolaria, Dalbergia mooniana, Derris ponapensis, Ormosia villamilii, and Pericopsis ponapensis

Perfumerie Bruno Court at Grasse, France. Sorting through roses at long benches. A vertitable riot of colour and aroma

Echinopsis Multiplex, a succulent plant of the Cactaceae (cactus) family. The name derives from echinos, meaning hedgehog or sea urchin, and opsis, referring to the plants dense covering of spines

Narcissus Major, Great Daffodil. early 19th century

Amaryllis Formosissima, Jacobaean Amaryllis. early 19th century

Passiflora Coerulea, Common Passion-Flower. early 19th century

Yes, no - Yes, no - I don t care anyway! A sweet little girl slowly removes the petals from a daisy to check if her true love shares her feelings....!! Date: 1931

Macrotropis formosa - Plate 30 from Botanical Drawings from Australia (1801) by Ferdinand L Bauer (1760-1826). Date: 1801

Oncidium ampliatum, O. sphegiferum - Watercolour by Franz Bauer, 1834. Paper, watercolour. Held in the Museum Botany Library, Bauer Unit. Date: 1834

India. Wine cup of Shan Jahan period. 1657. White nephrite j
India. Wine cup for the Emperor Shan Jahan. 1657. White nephrite jade. South Asia. Court workshops which at this time would have been in Agra. Victoria and Albert Museum. London. England

Girl with flower hat on a New Year card
Girl with a flower hat on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Anxiety, WW1
Cartoon, Anxiety. A lady in a yellow dress and bonnet pulls the petals off a flower, wondering whether her soldier loves her or not. Date: 1916

Picotee carnation and double laced Pink carnation.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from James Maddocks The Florists Directory, London, John Harding, 1810

Rafflesia - petals opening (Rafflesia sp)

Crinum Pedunculatum (Swamp Lily), with butterflies
Crinum Pedunculatum, also known as Swamp Lily, River Lily and Mangrove Lily, with two butterflies, Papilio Antenor and Papilio Menelaus, drawn by Mrs Edward Bury

Design for wallpaper with large flower
Design for wallpaper with large pink flower. Pencil and gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio; Wylie and Lochhead Limited. 1891

Ipomoea purpurea (L. ) Roth, tall morning-glory
Ipomoea purpurea (L.) Roth, tall morning-glory. Determinavit G.Staples 6/2008

Tulipa gesneriana, garden tulip
Plate 1135 from Curtiss Botanical Magazine (1808). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Magnolia conspicua, lily-flowered magnolia
Plate 1621 from Curtiss Botanical Magazine (1814). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Iris susiana, mourning iris
Illustration from Flore des serres XI page 23, held in the Botany Library Plate Collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Caltha palustris, yellow marsh marigold
Drawing 1/9 made in 1906 by Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Plate 031

Godetia vinosa
Plate 8 from Ladies Flower Garden Annuals (1843) by Jane Wells Loudon. Also shows Anothera and Godetia varieties

Mandragora autumnalis, Autumn mandrake
Plate 80 from Ladies Flower Garden Perennials (1843) by Mrs Jane Loudon. Also shows Solanum etuberosum and Physalis viscosa

Adansonia, baobab tree
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Hibiscus africanus, bladder katmia

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