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The Common Fig, from Dr. John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill's Medical Botany (1836). More hi-res scans from the book at : https://t.co/ckk4UUNfPB

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2018-04-04

Newly Discovered Orchid Strategy: Let Mushrooms Do The Work https://t.co/4hediq5s4P

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2018-04-03

we love this cross-section of Cordaianthus Penjoni from DH Scott's Studies in fossil 1909
https://t.co/QuMGdfqvHB

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2018-03-30

Red bird of paradise (Caesalpinia pulcherrima). by Sydenham Teast Edwards for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, v. 25 (1807). In via : https://t.co/BzjJKqkNVr

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2018-03-15

For - Amanita Muscaria illustrations in a C19th medical botany text, noted as the "most active of vegetable poisons...abundant in the Highlands of Scotland". Also known for inducing strong psychedelic effects when consumed.

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2018-03-09

(Callistephus chinensis). by Pierre-Joseph Redouté for his Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs: et des Plus Beaux Fruits (c1833). Contributed for digitization by the Peter H. Raven Library of : https://t.co/Dy0cBy0k6T --

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2018-02-27

New adopt i got from a adopt trade and i loVE. Used him as a quick warm-up.
His name is kiyo (key-yo) he runs a florist shop and is a huge plant botany enthusiast. SeveryServes customer with a warm smile and a fact about the plant specimen they brought!

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2018-02-24

"Familiar Indian Flowers" (1878) contains 30 chromolithographic plates drawn by Lena Lowis, lithographed by D. Blair & printed by the lithographic firm of M. & N. Hanhart. Find it in via : https://t.co/a5GCc7ZeIA

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2018-02-22

"Illustrations of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Falkland Islands" (1921) features beautiful by Elinor Frances Vallentin and descriptions by Enid Mary Cotton. Explore it in via : https://t.co/wj5qHkAlBt

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2018-02-21

Giant Granadilla (Passiflora quadrangularis) is a member of the genus. from Revue Horticole, Ser. 4, T. 4 (1855). Contributed to by Botany Libraries: https://t.co/PA3PbJZkWS --

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2018-02-17

From "Description des plantes d'Amérique" by Plumier (1693) & "Species Plantarum" by (1753) to date, laurifolia is still stirring discussions.

A new lectotype proposed in research just published with us: ttps://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.95.22324

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2018-02-15

The Dog of New South Wales. from "Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay" 1789. https://t.co/TF2FSo2n72 via

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2018-02-08

Paxton's magazine of botany, and register of flowering plants. By Fleming, C. J. London; Orr and Smith. 1835-1849 https://t.co/3lQpHI0eBd

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2018-01-14

"Plants of the Coast of Coromandel" (1795-[1820]) is a major work on the flora of It features 300 hand-colored engraved plates after native Indian artists. Contributed to via https://t.co/qIAB8qOzOu

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2018-01-04

One of the best British scientific botanical artists of the 20th century - Stella Ross Craig (1906-2006) illustrated over 1,300 species in her monumental Drawings of British Plants series (1948-1973)

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2017-12-27

- Continuing the nativity theme this weekend, next economic botany specimen on the countdown is Myrrh. This piece dates from 1871 and was traded in Zanzibar

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2017-12-17

If you're visiting tomorrow, join me at in the Attenborough studio at 12.30 or 14.30 to learn about the world our stegosaur lived in
https://t.co/t5F0jwGF4N

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2017-12-16

Day 11 - Christmas rose - not a rose, and rarely in flower for https://t.co/2ul6z2K1s1

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2017-12-12

"Plantæ utiliores" ([1839]1842-1850) features by Mary Ann Burnett & text chiefly by her brother, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, the 1st professor of at . Digitized in by https://t.co/LUYcK4aYM8

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2017-11-21

meet daisy, the protagonist of an upcoming project!
she's a young dryad who loves botany and her friends!

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2017-11-09