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Taxus Collection

Background imageTaxus Collection: European yew tree, Taxus baccata

European yew tree, Taxus baccata. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Background imageTaxus Collection: European badger, Meles meles

European badger, Meles meles (Meles taxus). Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library, Edinburgh, 1836

Background imageTaxus Collection: English yew tree or European yew, Taxus baccata

English yew tree or European yew, Taxus baccata. Handcoloured stipple engraving after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceaus Traite des Arbres et Arbustes

Background imageTaxus Collection: Yew tree, Taxus baccata

Yew tree, Taxus baccata. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Background imageTaxus Collection: English yew tree, Taxus baccata

English yew tree, Taxus baccata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Background imageTaxus Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 18

Curtis British Entomology Plate 18
Diptera: Empis borealis (Northern Empis) [Plant: Taxus baccata (Yew Tree)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageTaxus Collection: Taxus melanosporum, Yew

Taxus melanosporum, Yew - Watercolour by Franz Bauer, 1835. Paper, watercolour. London. Botany Library, Bauer Unit, Unfinished Drawings of Plants Cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew 6: f. 29

Background imageTaxus Collection: Common yew tree, Taxus baccifera

Common yew tree, Taxus baccifera.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by French botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard from Herbier de la France, Paris, 1780

Background imageTaxus Collection: Taxus sp. yew

Taxus sp. yew
Yew berries and seeds which are known to contain the alkaloid taxine and are poisonous

Background imageTaxus Collection: Yew

Yew
Plate 32 from The Shape, Skeleton and Foliage of Thirty Two Species of Trees, 1786 by A. Cozens. The series was originally issued in 1771

Background imageTaxus Collection: Badger / Swan / Wild Beasts

Badger / Swan / Wild Beasts
(meles taxus)


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