Roots Collection (page 2)

Roots and tiny pink and white flowers of burnet saxifrage. Pimpinella calycina.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Roots, stem and leaves of angelica polymorpha.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Marshmallow flower fairy, Althaea officinalis.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris

Aneimia cicutaria fern showing leaves and roots.. Drawn and zincographed by C. T. Rosenberg, for Thomas Moores The Garden Companion and Florists Guide, 1852, published by Charles Frederick Cheffins

Roots and tubers of the potato plant Solanum tuberosum.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures on Botany

Roots of the onion Allium cepa and meadow saxifrage Saxifraga granulata.. 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

The Dawn of Christianity The Flight into Egypt
The Dawn of Christianity (The Flight into Egypt) (1841). Turner, Joseph Mallord William 1775-1851. The greatest English painter of his generation

Chile - Zamacueca Dance. The Zamacueca is an ancient colonial dance and music that originated in Peru, taking its roots from African, Spanish, and Andean rhythms. Date: circa 1909

Large Rubber Tree, Bermuda
Children sitting on the splayed branches of a large Rubber tree, Bermuda. Date: 1912

LCC-LFB Presentation of Silver gallantry medal
Lord Snell, the Chairman of the London County Council, is presenting Fireman J W Roots with the Councils Silver Gallantry Medal in recognition of his extraordinary bravery at a fire at 5 St Peter

India, Orissa, Konarak: Roots of a Banyan tree. Date: 2011

Iris Rhizome and Roots
Rhizome and roots of the German Iris (Iris Germanica). Date: 1950s

Ta Prohm temple, Siem Reap, Cambodia
View of Ta Prohm (Ancestor Brahma) Khmer Buddhist temple at Siem Reap, Cambodia. It was built in the Bayon style in the late 12th and early 13th centuries

Entrance to Ta Prohm temple, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Entrance to the Ta Prohm (Ancestor Brahma) Khmer Buddhist temple at Siem Reap, Cambodia. It was built in the Bayon style in the late 12th and early 13th centuries

Glendurgan, Cornwall, after the 1987 hurricane
Scene at Glendurgan, a National Trust garden in North Falmouth, Cornwall, after the 1987 hurricane. A man stands behind a large tree which has been completely uprooted

Mexico - Chapultepec, Mexico City - Giant Tree
Chapultepec, Mexico City - a large hill on the outskirts of central Mexico City. A special place for Mexicans throughout Mexican history

Young Foxes at play
Young Fox cubs at play amid the tangled roots of an old tree. Their den appears to be directly under the tree itself

Fairy leaves her home amid the roots
A small fairy leaves her house set in the roots of a tree. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Poe / The Premature Burial
THE PREMATURE BURIAL " Deep, deep, & for ever, into some ordinary & nameless GRAVE"

Two boys and a tree
Two little boys threaten to fight each other -- fortunately, the tree manages to keep them apart!

Hohenzollern Fam Tree
Family tree of the Hohenzollern family, commencing (at the roots) with Friedrich I elector of Brandenburg

Garibaldi Gardening
GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI - digging roots in his favourite garden

Gladstone Fells a Tree
Gladstone was renowned for his fondness for felling trees : psychiatrists would no doubt get to the roots of this and and show why it drove him to branch out into politics

The Tree of Vices
THE TREE OF THE VICES From the roots of evil spring the Seven Deadly Sins, each in turn branching out into all manner of wickedness

Transplanting a Tree
Transplanting a fully-grown tree on a specially devised carriage

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