Poales Collection

Ananas aculeatus, pineapple
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Ananas comosus, pineapple
A photograph of the detail from one of the decorative ceiling panels from the roof of the Natural History Museums Central Hall. Showing Ananas comosus, pineapple

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

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

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

Lantana camara by Adeline Frances Mary Duppa
Plate 33 from a bound volume drawings of flowers from Italy and Madeira, and of fungi from Ringwood, Hants. drawn between 1870-85

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

Scirpus lacustris, true bulrush
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

Pineapple with insects
Plate 2 from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium by Maria Sybilla Merian

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

Ananas sp. pineapple
Plate 166 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

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

Carex arenaria, sand sedge
Illustration from Agnes Ibbetsons sketchbook of grasses, c.1809 -1822. Volume 3. No. 35. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Guzmania lingulata, scarlet star

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

Bromelia anticantha
Watercolour by Margaret Ursula Mee, c. 1958. Mees name will be forever associated with her interest in conserving the Amazon rainforests

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

Cyperus sp. sedge
Plate 621 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1795-1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Juvenile Sedge Warbler
Illustration of a Juvenile Sedge Warbler by Henrik Gronvold (1858-1940)

Tropical Fruits
Plate 51 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 12, Hort. Atlas (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Fruits de Serre Temperee et Serre Chaude

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

Ananas sativas
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

Tillandsia stricta, air plant
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

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