Poaceae Collection

Arundo donax, giant reed
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Saccharum officinarum, sugar cane
An iconographic image of a sugar cane plant, set enlarged within a landscape. Plate from the Botany Library Plate Collection held in the Natural History Museum, London

Friticum hordeiforme, wheat
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Phragmites australis (Cav. ), common reed
A herbarium sheet containing Phragmites australis (Cav.), a common reed which grows in wetlands throughout the America, Europe and parts of Asia. This specimen is from Panama

Megalomys desmarestii, antillean giant rice rat. Catalogue number NHM 1850.11.30.6

Oligoryzomys victus, St. Vincent pygmy rice rat (holotype). Catalogue reference NHM 1897.12.26.1)

Sorghum bicolor, sorghum
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Phleum pratense, Timothy grass
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Oryza sativa, rice
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Crocodylus palnotis, Muggers
Watercolour by Olivia Tonge; c. 1912 Date: circa 1912

Poaceae: The Grass tribe, grasses used by humans
Plate 175 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Trimeresurus albolabris, bamboo pit viper
Photograph of a bamboo pit viper (Trimeresurus albolabris) wrapped around a tree branch

Zea mais, maize
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Dactylis glomerata, cocksfoot
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Poa pratensis, smooth meadow-grass
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Lotium perenne, perennial rye grass
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Holcus landatus, Yorkshire fog
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Coix lachryma, pit pit grass
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Fesuca pratensis, meadow fescue
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Dendrocalamus strictus, giant bamboo
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Oryza sativa, common rice
Illustration from Icones Plantarum Medicinalium (1788-1812) by Joseph Plenck, plate 178. Original artwork held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Eleusine coracana, finger millet
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Zea mays, maize
This large cultivated grass called maize or sweet corn is an important cereal. Grain is ground for flour as well as forming a table vegetable, the husks are used as fuel & the leaves for cattle fodder

Oats
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of oats, artificially coloured by computer

Oats
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of oats, artificially coloured by computer

Phragmites oeningensis
Fossil from the Natural History Museum s, Palaeontology Department

Cymbopogon iwarancusa, oilgrass
Plate 624 from the John Fleming Collection of Indian Drawings, c. 1795-1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Tritonia crocata, corn lily
Illustration no.8 by Sydney Parkinson, 1767. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Papaver rhoeas L, corn poppy. Dried specimen taken from the museum herbarium. Seed from Poland, plant collected in 1952

Quiscalus quiscula, common grackle
Plate 7 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved by W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh

Capillipedium parviflorum, weed
Watercolour 238 from the Saharunpore Gardens Collection, c. 1850s. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Melocanna baccifera, berry bamboo
Plate 1050 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, 1800. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Panicum frumentaceum, barnyard grass
Plate 1047 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Gladiolus sp. corn flag
Plate 159 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Saccharum officinarum, sugarcane
Plate 635 from the Fleming Collection of Indian Drawings, 1800. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Zea mays, corn

Zea mays L. corn
From Blancos Flora de Filipinas. A botanical illustration from the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Garden with bamboo
An unidentified garden with bamboo (Phyllostachys, of the Poaceae family) growing on either side of a curving pathway

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