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Ivy illustration by Mary Anne Stebbing for #folklorethursday – a plant long associated with winter, where sprigs were brought into the house to ward off evil. It is also an important plant for pollinators & biodiversity #womenartists #sciart #biodiversity #plantlore
How about adding this to your drawing room #HouseplantAppreciationDay
Anemone blanda by Margaret Stones, for Curtis's Botanical Magazine (reproduced by kind permission of the estate of Margaret Stones) #botanicalart #sciart
To coincide with the Mark Frith: a legacy of ancient oaks exhibition at Kew's Shirley Sherwood Gallery, we have a new Reading Room display focussing on depictions of #trees: open weekdays between 10am-4pm from 2 January #sciart #botanicalart
For the final #MarbledMonday of 2018, we have Jean-Baptiste Edouard Bornet & Gustave Adolphe Thuret's 'Notes algologiques…' (1876-80) - with matching illustrations (if you use your imagination!)
A yellow berried #holly “Fructu Luteo” from our Mary Anne Stebbing collection – so Christmassy it was even painted in December (1862)! 🎄
Botanical collections were often made by the surgeons on board ships including Kew Director, Sir Joseph Hooker on the HMS Erebus (1839-1843). View Hooker's journal via @BioDivLibrary https://t.co/BtXH624o9p #MaritimeArchives Nytophyllum smithi from the resulting flora #Algae ⛵
🌊 Dive in to our copy of Elizabeth Blackwell's Herbarium Blackwellianum (1750) this #MarbledMonday! 🌊
Want to do a #PhD? Interested in #botany, empire and #archives? With @RoehamptonUni, we are recruiting a fully funded studentship to work on our fabulous Miscellaneous Reports. Applications close 19 Nov. See https://t.co/7t6bPdhCHI #PhDlife
A great visit to @CUHerb, to see some of their botanical treasures 🌸🌼🌳🌿