Elizabeth Blackwell is 29. The year is 1736. Her husband is in debtor’s prison and she has a toddler to feed. So she turns desperation into inspiration, learning botany and painting an exquisite encyclopedia of medicinal plants https://t.co/LaTPLKA2kh

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Mark Spencer , Botany Curator: W. Keble Martin's Concise British Flora. It’s a beautifully illustrated and accessible work that helped me learn my first wild plant names and get into the world of botany. 3/

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hi there! i'm lianne, an illustrator and lover of botany set to graduate from MICA this may🌾i hope to spread love for nature through my work, and i'm currently looking for freelance!

🌿https://t.co/fhMTXwMp15
🌿https://t.co/sq6JY63w1w
🌿mail: liannepflug.com

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If you were to paint a plant from our gardens, which would you choose? 🌻

Orchid dahlia by Edwina Pickard

See this and many others from our botanical painting collection, currently on display as part of ‘Radical Botany’ in the Core Gallery until 17 May.

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Botanical illustration and the park: Vegetable materia medica of the United States, or, Medical botany........by William PC Barton and HC Carey.....1925, from BHL/Missouri Botanic Garden.......https://t.co/XYHak3lcbN

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Hi there! My name's Selina, I'm an artist and designer from Canada! ✨ I make everything from art prints to clothing and I love D&D, space and botany 🌿🌙

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🥕 American medical botany: .
Boston:Cummings and Hilliard, 1817-1820.
https://t.co/tpvPN1Lw1R

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I genuinely thought this was a painting when I first saw it but no it is a botany specimen!
Image via CC0 copyright license https://t.co/ocQjb4q6cx

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The Musée des Beaux-Arts de the Musée Grobet-Labadié and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, de la Faïence et de la Mode will exhibit ft. and at the Salon du Dessin (25 - 30 Mar 2020). The Tivoli Waterfalls,

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Photo: Common Teasel Seedheads by -

Select focus on a stand of common teasel.
Keywords: common teasel dipsacus fullonum invasive plant seedhead vivipary prickly stem barb thorny fladed bloom floral flora thorn wildflower plant weed wild nature botany wild teasel fuller's te…

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Photo: Closeup of Common Teasel Seedhead by -

Common teasel plant seedhead on a prickly stem.
Keywords: common teasel dipsacus fullonum invasive plant seedhead vivipary prickly stem barb thorny fladed bloom floral flora thorn wildflower plant weed wild nature botany wild te…

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Spotted some crocuses in the wild so so here’s some lovely illustrations! Saffron (from crocus sativus) historically used to treat ailments such as gout & asthma, and believed to be an aphrodisiac. This 19thc medical text also claims it brings “ecstatic drunkenness”

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Botany and the park: the four types of plants - plants you can eat, plants that you can kill people with, plants that you can use to get high, and the rest.......from the treesinspace blog......https://t.co/K9YDi9UE3H (Images: BHL)

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; leonardo di ser poero da vinci

— EVERYONE KNOWS THIS DUDE
— areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, paleontology, and cartography.

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