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Flaming torch bromeliads (Billbergia pyramidalis) are terrestrial and epiphytic. from Annales de la Société Royale d'Agriculture et de Botanique de Gand, T.3 (1847), edited by Charles Morren, via Botany Libraries: https://t.co/mRZv5VeD3v

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2020-04-13

a cultivar of Sturt's Desert Pea (Swainsona formosa), one of Australia's most recognizable by P. Stroobant for "L'Illustration Horticole", Vol. 12 (1865), contributed in by the Raven Library of ➡️ https://t.co/qbuvycC92J

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2020-03-30

Our work experience student has been sorting a fantastic collection of wall charts published in the late 1800s.
The posters shown here from Botanische Wandtafeln, show the morphology of the alga Botrydium granulatum in great detail.

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2020-02-17

James Sowerby's "English Botany", issued in 267 monthly parts & featuring nearly 2,600 hand-colored engravings, was the most comprehensive, illustrated flora of Great Britain available at the time. 3rd ed. (1863-1886) in ➡️ https://t.co/wQPbjzTSrb

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2020-02-11

Aloe vera for This succulent has long been used medicinally, for instance in ointments for minor burns and sunburns. by Mary Ann Burnett from "Plantæ utiliores" ([1839]1842-1850), in via ➡️ https://t.co/0IwTo6H3Kd

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2020-01-13

"Iconographie descriptive des cactées" (1841-1847), by French botanist Charles Antoine Lemaire, has been described as "the rarest work on cacti ever published." Fewer than 20 copies are known to exist. Find it in via ➡️ https://t.co/NWd3obwDoI

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2019-12-16

The nasturtium Tropaeolum moritzianum is native to South America. drawn & lithographed by C.F. Schmidt for "Icones plantarum rariorum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis" (1840-44). Explore this work in thanks to ➡️ https://t.co/eMjXxWTvov

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2019-12-03

Sprig of holly from our botanical watercolour collections for the second day of December

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2019-12-02

As we enjoy the crisp clear days of autumn, these wonderful botanical illustrations of bramble, hazel, rowan and horse chestnut, from Botany collections , are evocative of the season’s treasures.

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2019-11-25

de Provins (Rosa gallica) has centuries of representation in French history. by Henriette Vincent for her "Études de Fleurs et de Fruits" (c. 1820). In via the Lenhardt Library of ➡️ https://t.co/VyLTef1cdy

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2019-11-19

A couple of strikingly interesting Euphorbias, Caper Spurge and Portland Spurge from the Wilson botanical watercolour collection.

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2019-11-11

Autumnal selection from the Diana Ruth Wilson botanical art collection

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2019-10-14

Pheasant's Foot Geranium (Pelargonium glutinosum). engraved by S. Watts after designs by Edwin Dalton Smith and published within Robert Sweet's 5-volume work on the family Geraniaceae, freely available in via ➡️ https://t.co/x98el8OAXD

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2019-10-08

The long-leaf sugarbush (Protea longifolia) is native to South Africa. drawn and lithographed by C.F. Schmidt for "Icones plantarum rariorum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis" (1840-44), freely available in via ➡️ https://t.co/YyqtMJwjyA

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2019-10-01

Meehan's "The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States" (1878-79) presented a selection of indigenous US plants, with chromolithographs by L. Prang & Company after from life by Alois Lunzer. In via ➡️ https://t.co/4rHIueQXY0

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2019-09-17

More seasonal plants from the Wilson botanical collection - such an inspirational time of year!

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2019-09-16

Let's have a bit of autumn colour to celebrate the turning of the year, from our Wilson botanical collection

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2019-09-02

A selection of flowers from Kashmir from our Edwardian botanist's exotic 40th birthday excursion. More from the Diana Ruth Wilson collection of botanical watercolours

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2019-08-05

+ Watercolors by Harriet Godhue Williams in a manuscript recording the plants in her husband, Stephen W. Williams', Herbarium. In thanks to ➡️ https://t.co/JLGzVhadRA

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2019-07-30

Celebrate by exploring the flora of the Alps and Pyrenees Mountains with "Nouvelle flore coloriée de poche des Alpes et des Pyrénées" (1906-1912), available in via ➡️ https://t.co/nyREGKONa1

in this post by Cecile Pfulb-Kastner.

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2019-07-23