Root Collection (page 3)

Taro Plantation - Samoa - Pacific Ocean. Taro is a root vegetable native to Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. Taro features in traditional desserts such as Samoan " fa ausi"

Zingiber officinale, ginger

Daucus carota, carrot
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Bonatea speciosa - Watercolour by Franz Bauer, undated. Paper, watercolour. Botany Library, Bauer Unit

Ageratum. Seventeenth-century engraving in Bibliotheca Pharmaceutica-Medica by J. Jacobi Mangeti. Published in Genoa. Italy. Colored engraving

Aconitum. Seventeenth-century engraving in Bibliotheca Pharmaceutica-Medica by J. Jacobi Mangeti. Published in Genoa. Italy. Colored engraving

Thora Valdensium. Seventeenth-century engraving in Bibliotheca Pharmaceutica-Medica by J. Jacobi Mangeti. Published in Genoa. Italy. Engraving

Blueberry. (Vaccinium oxycoccos). 19th century engraving

Pink geraniums on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Plants / Smilax China
Chinese Smilax or China Root Date: 1814

Dioscorides receives a mandrake root from Euresis
Dioscorides(c. 40 90 AD), Greek naturalist, receives a mandrake root from Euresis, goddess of Discovery, and commissions an artist to make a drawing of it. Date: circa 80 AD

Ginseng root
Panax Ginseng Quinquefolium Root. Date: 1891

Red mangrove Loop-root mangrove Asiatic mangrove saplings grow between basalt rocks on sea shore a view to Moka mountain range

Interior of Ilot Gabriel island a view to the West to a lighthouse on Ile Plate / Flat island vegetation among black basalt rocks wind-battered Common screwpine tree (on the right)

Ta Phrom, Khmer Temple in Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Giant tree roots at Ta Phrom, Khmer Temple in Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia. Date: 2014

Jellyfish including mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca), berenice rouge, root-arm medusa, etc.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

Kouka or kujin, Sophora flavescens.. Handcolored woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901

Large root cluster, leaves and stems of the Japanese wild carrot, Nothosmyrnium japonicum.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu

Rhizome and root of tidalmarsh flat sedge, Cyperus serotinus.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Rhizome and root of the alkali bulrush, Scirpus maritimus L.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Large leaved angelica plant: full plant from root clump, stem, leaves and florets.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants

Root and seeds of cardamom, Elettaria cardamomum Maton.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Yellow flowers, root, seeds and leaves of Cheilocostus speciosus, Amomum arboreum Lour.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants

Root, seeds, flowers and green leaves of wild Siamese cardamom, Amomum xanthioides Wall.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu

Roots and round, brown, ball-like valerian plant, Valerian celtica.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Yellow root, stem and green leaves of lovage, Ligusticum ibukiense.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Leaves and delicate white florets of the licorice-root plant (lovage). Ligusticum acutilobum.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu

Large brown wild parsnip root tuber, with leaves and tiny white flowers, Angelica anomala.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu

Root, leaves and tiny white florets of Japanese lovage, Ligusticum japonicum.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Large brown root and thick striped stem of licorice root. Ligusticum acutilobum.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Anemone tuber, tulip bulb, hyacinth bulb, and ranunculus root.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from James Maddocks The Florists Directory, London, John Harding, 1810

Root and bulb of the lily, Lilium species.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures on Botany

Branching melanthium, with many small lilac flowers, bulbs and root, Ornithoglossum viride.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtiss

Root of the columbo or calumba plant, Cocculus palmatus.. Illustration drawn by Mrs. C. Telfair and Professor Bojer, engraved by Swan

Radish, Raphanus sativus, root vegetable.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures on Botany

Root vegetables, carrot Daucus carota and turnip Brassica rapa.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures on Botany

A buttressed tree trunk, typical in rainforest in Kinabatangan river floodplain. Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; June

A buttressed tree trunk - in primary rainforest. river Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; June

Mangrove forest at high tide. Labuk Bay, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; June

Tundra / Root Vole - feeds on plants at river Negustyah bank at night (Microtus oeconomus (Pall.)). (tributary of river Bolshoi Ugan) typical across Siberian plains; Uganskii Nature Reserve, Siberia

Greetings postcard from Munich, Germany, showing a figure sitting on a barrel, holding a beer jar in one hand and a vegetable in the other. Date: 1908

Advert for the Ministry of Food 1942
Home-guards of health. Of course you don t want to be a food crank. But it is useful to know that there are certain homely foods that can do a marvellous job of protecting you

Sheet music cover, Money is the Root of All Evil (Take It Away, Take It Away, Take It Away), with words and music by Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer, as performed in the revue High Time

Loading Mangels
Loading mangelwurzels from a clamp on a farm in Hertfordshire, England. The word manglewurzel is derived from the German mangel beet and wurzel root. Date: 1930s

Serbian Beggar - clutching a handful of unusual root vegetables... Date: circa 1910s

Preparing Manioc at Banghi in the Congo. Fufu, or cassava bread, is made in Africa by first pounding cassava (Manioc) in a mortar to make flour (as shown here)

Local Fruit Sellers, Hamilton, Bermuda
Local Fruit and Vegetable Sellers, Hamilton, Bermuda Date: circa 1910s

Veltheimia glauca, lily
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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