Vaccinium Collection

Raspberry and bilberry
Raspberry variety, Rubus idaeus, and bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Lingonberry or cowberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea minor. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke after Thomas Shotter Boys from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1825

Java mountain lingonberry, Vaccinium erythrinum. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Red whortle-berry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Black huckleberry, Gaylussacia baccata (Red-flowered clammy whortle-berry, Vaccinium resinosum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr

Bilberry, cowberry and cranberry
Bilberry or blueberry, Vaccinium myrtillus 1, lingonberry or cowberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea 2, and cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccos 3

Curtis British Entomology Plate 662
Coleoptera: Sphaeriestes foveolatus = Rabocerus gabrieli [Plant: Vaccinium vitis-idaea (Cowberry)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 631
Lepidoptera. Stilbia anomalata = Stilbia anomala (False Footman, The Anomalous) [Plant: Vaccinium uliginosum (Bog Bilberry)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 523
Lepidoptera: Hyria auroraria = Idaea muricata (Purple-bordered Gold) [Plant: Vaccinium oxycoccus (Cranberry)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 73
Hymenoptera: Bassus calculator = Microdus calculator (Beautiful Bassus) [Plant: Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry)] Date: 1824-39

Blueberry. (Vaccinium oxycoccos). 19th century engraving

Sowerby / Marsh Cranberry
Marsh cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccos Date: 1863 - 72

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