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Sarracenia Collection

Background imageSarracenia Collection: Purple pitcher plant or side-saddle flower

Purple pitcher plant or side-saddle flower, Sarracenia purpurea, Sarracenie pourpre. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alphonse-Leon Noel after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre

Background imageSarracenia Collection: Purple pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea

Purple pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea. Sarracenia porporina. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Background imageSarracenia Collection: Eastern quoll and water opossum

Eastern quoll and water opossum
Eastern quoll, Dasyurus viverrinus 1, water opossum or yapok, Chironectes minimus 2. Dasyurus Maugei, Dasiuro di Mauge, Chironette yapock

Background imageSarracenia Collection: Pitcher plants and caper bush

Pitcher plants and caper bush
Purple sidesaddle plant, Sarracenia purpurea, yellow sidesaddle plant, Sarracenia flava, and taper-leaved caper, Capparis acuminata

Background imageSarracenia Collection: Parrot pitcher plant, Sarracenia psittacina

Parrot pitcher plant, Sarracenia psittacina. Native to the American South. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Background imageSarracenia Collection: Hooded pitcher plant, Sarracenia minor

Hooded pitcher plant, Sarracenia minor (Side-saddle flower, Sarracenia adunca). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes

Background imageSarracenia Collection: Sarracenia purpurea ssp venos, purple pitcher plant

Sarracenia purpurea ssp venos, purple pitcher plant
A carnivorous plant attracting insects with sweet nectar on the top of the pitcher. The surface is slippery and the insects fall in. Unable to climb out, the prey is digested by enzymes

Background imageSarracenia Collection: Sarracenia purpurea, pitcherplant

Sarracenia purpurea, pitcherplant
Drawing 9/2 made in 1905 by Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Plate 135

Background imageSarracenia Collection: Sarracenia flava, trumpets

Sarracenia flava, trumpets
Image used in The Chelsea Gardener Philip Miller 1691-1771 by Hazel Le Rougetel (1990) page 194. Drawing from a collection of original drawings and sketches by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770)

Background imageSarracenia Collection: Sarracenia flava, trumpet leaf

Sarracenia flava, trumpet leaf
Watercolour by William Young (1742- 1785), 1767. Original artwork held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageSarracenia Collection: Sarracenia Species

Sarracenia Species
PITCHER PLANT with buttercup


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