Root Collection (page 4)

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

Dracontium percusum

Beta vulgaris, common beet
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Vegetables
Plate 5 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 12, Hort. Atlas (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Tubercules alimentaires

Polyalthea - Strange Forest Tree - Tree Fern
Page 83 from The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace, London 1874

Zingiber sylvestre & Z. angustifolium, ginger
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Raphanus spp. radish and Daucus carota, carrot
Watercolour of a radish with intertwined growth & carrot also intertwined by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Rhizophora mangrove forest
The gnarled roots of the mangrove forest, Kampong Kapok, Muara, Brunei. Photographed by Dr Gaden Robinson

Composite Plant illustration
An illustration of a composite plant - an imaginary plant created to demonstrate various plant parts - by PJF Turpin in Oeuvres d Histoire Naturelle de Goethe, by CF Martin, 1837

Ipomoea pandurata, man-root
Watercolour No. 221 from Volume 1 by Simon Taylor, c. mid-1700s. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Amorphophallus muelleri
Plate 1113 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1795-1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Calogyne corrugata
Plate 20 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Leontice thalictroides, beechdrops
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Convallaria polygonatum, solomons seal root
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

The milky way by Lynn Root and Harry Clork The milky way by
The milky way by Lynn Root and Harry Clork. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of The Milky Way at the Mason Opera House, showing a boxer slumped in the corner of the boxing ring

Port Arthur - Varieties of Chinese Vegetables
Japanese card depicting three varieties of Chinese cabbage and other vegetables (possibly beetroot) - at Port Arthur. A panoramic view of Lushunkou (a district in the municipality of Dalian)

Cymbidium ensifolium, purple striped orchid
Cymbidium ensifolium haematodes, a purple striped orchid. 1893

German Navy lampooned - World War One
Propaganda postcard from the First World War lampooning the German Naval capability as a rusting weed-encasted hulk, unable to repond to the effective and nimble Allied naval fleet

A crop of vegetables - Western Canada
A fine food crop from Western Canada - including pumpkins, corn, onions, potatoes, squash, sunflower and various other root vegetables. Date: circa 1907

Dingoes, leap over a tree root a forest, their coats are redish brown with tints of black Date: 20th century

BEETROOT
Avons Early variety of beetroot. Date: 1969

Englands God is Money
Money - the accepted religion of England Date: 1870

Daucus Carota Sativus (Carrot) with leaves attached
Daucus Carota Sativus (Carrot), a root vegetable of the Apiaceae family, with the green leaves still attached

Armeria Plantaginea taproot
Taproot of the Armeria Plantaginea (Thrift)

Armeria Plantaginea root
Root of the Armeria Plantaginea (Thrift)

Arrowroot Production
The cultivation of ARROW-ROOT on a South African farm

Plants Herbs
Doctor Bokanky, a street herbalist in the streets of Victorian London, offering the Kalibonca Root as a cure-all

Transport by Raft 1555
Transporting root crops and other goods by raft

Glastonbury Thorn
At Glastonbury Joseph of Arimathea throws himself down to rest & thrusts his hawthorn staff into the ground where it miraculously takes root & becomes the Glastonbury thorn

Coral Reef / J. W. Whimper
Vegetation has taken root on the upper levels of a coral reef, forming a kind of island

Scene in New Caledonia
TAKING THE ROOT ROUTE : a native shows a westerner how to negotiate the swamps by stepping from one root to another of the trees growing in the water

Whitsunday Island
A madreporic atoll comprising a ring-shaped coral reef, on which seeds borne by the wind have taken root

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