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Zea Collection

Background imageZea Collection: Maps / Australia / New Zea

Maps / Australia / New Zea
Map showing Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and neighbouring islands

Background imageZea Collection: Corn or maize, Zea mays

Corn or maize, Zea mays, Mais coltivato. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Background imageZea Collection: Seaweed species

Seaweed species
Serrated wrack, Fucus serratus 1, Desmarests flattened weed, Desmarestia aculeata 2, and brown algae, Halidrys siliquosa 3

Background imageZea Collection: Maize or corn, Zea mays, and oats, Avena sativa

Maize or corn, Zea mays, and oats, Avena sativa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Background imageZea Collection: Herbs and vegetables, plantes condimentaires

Herbs and vegetables, plantes condimentaires et fruits legumieres. Corn, Zea mais, cucumber, Cucumis sativus, pepper, Capsicum annuum, tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, caper, Capparis spinosa

Background imageZea Collection: Maize or sweetcorn, Zea mays

Maize or sweetcorn, Zea mays. Handcoloured steel engraving by Pedretti after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire Pittoresque d Histoire Naturelle

Background imageZea Collection: Varieties of maize or corn, Zea mays (Zea mais)

Varieties of maize or corn, Zea mays (Zea mais)
Varieties of maize, Zea mays (Zea mais). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Background imageZea Collection: Corn and millet

Corn and millet
Corn or maize, Zea mays 1, and millet, Panicum miliaceum 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795

Background imageZea Collection: Maize or Indian corn, Zea mays

Maize or Indian corn, Zea mays. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Background imageZea Collection: Maize or corn, Zea mays

Maize or corn, Zea mays. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants)

Background imageZea Collection: Maize, Zea mays

Maize, Zea mays.. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieus Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Background imageZea Collection: Francesco Zea

Francesco Zea
FRANCESCO ANTONIO ZEA Colombian statesman, president, and scientist Date: 1770 - 1822

Background imageZea Collection: Zea mais, maize

Zea mais, maize
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageZea Collection: Zea mays, maize

Zea mays, maize
This large cultivated grass called maize or sweet corn is an important cereal. Grain is ground for flour as well as forming a table vegetable, the husks are used as fuel & the leaves for cattle fodder

Background imageZea Collection: Tritonia crocata, corn lily

Tritonia crocata, corn lily
Illustration no.8 by Sydney Parkinson, 1767. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageZea Collection: Zea mays, corn

Zea mays, corn

Background imageZea Collection: Zea mays L. corn

Zea mays L. corn
From Blancos Flora de Filipinas. A botanical illustration from the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageZea Collection: Plants / Zea-Mays

Plants / Zea-Mays
MAIZE, or INDIAN CORN, named by Gerard TURKY WHEAT


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