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Pitcairnia altensteinii is endemic to Venezuela. by C.F. Schmidt for "Icones plantarum rariorum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis" (1840-44), depicting new or little-known plants grown at the Berlin Botanic Gardens. Via : https://t.co/F6ozLGedwO

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2019-07-19

Maria E. Miller was a Halifax-based teacher, artist & poet. Encouraged by local botanist Titus Smith, she painted local wildflowers & published her in "Wild Flowers of Nova Scotia" (1840-1853). Explore her work via : https://t.co/lTX9eHVqFq

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2019-06-07

Enjoy botanical for "Icones plantarum rariorum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis" (1840-44) illustrated & described new or little-known plants grown at the Berlin Botanic Gardens. This is available in via : https://t.co/mgOBg2ew90

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2019-05-17

Anne Pratt (1806-1893) was one of the most popular artists & writers of the "Golden Age of botanical art". Producing 20 publications, she helped popularize flower study. explores her legacy for ➡️ https://t.co/zq4V3VVimy

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2019-03-29

Orange trumpetvine (Pyrostegia venusta). by Lena Lowis for her book "Familiar Indian Flowers" (1878), which depicts "some of the familiar flowers to be met with in our Indian gardens". In via : https://t.co/3M7Irk6JVu

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2019-03-16

Botanist Alice Lounsberry & artist Marian Ellis Rowan collaborated on 3 botanical guidebooks that were intended to make accessible for a popular audience. Explore their work via for ➡️ https://t.co/hdbTfJYYsw 🌸🌺🌼

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2019-03-15

Margaret Meen was employed to illustrate many new plants grown at in the late 1700s to early 1800s. is digitizing her as part of a project on women botanical artists with . Learn more: https://t.co/vgueu0msWT

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2019-03-15

Sun Cactus (𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘴) for and by Louise-Cécile Descamps-Sabouret for 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘶𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘦 (1899). Contributed in by Botany Library ➡️ https://t.co/n0JrXR5z0i

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2019-03-09

Water lily (genus Nymphaea). This cultivar (Marie Lagrange) was developed by horticulturalist Antoine Lagrange & named after his wife. by Louise-Cécile Descamps-Sabouret for "Revue Horticole" (1899), in via ➡️ https://t.co/kyyV7QWwIj

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2019-02-22

Happy The lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) has sacred meaning in both Buddhism and Hinduism. by Mary Ann Burnett for her series "Plantæ Utiliores", Vol. 2 (1845), coauthored with Gilbert Thomas Burnett. In via ➡️ https://t.co/206GVccJRe 🌸🌺🌸

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2019-02-02

John Lindley became known as the “father of modern orchidology”. For explore his "Illustrations of Orchidaceous Plants" (1830-38), which features by Franz Bauer and was recently digitized in by ➡️ https://t.co/FoAVjURJfY

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2018-12-22

August Batsch's "Analyses florum e diversis plantarum generibus" (1790) features text in Latin & German + 20 plates based on drawings by Batsch to help illustrate the morphology of various plants. View in via ➡️ https://t.co/H50cnSWFTJ 🌺🌼🌸

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2018-12-21

🍫Happy The seeds of the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) are used to make chocolate. by Etienne Denisse for his lavishly-illustrated Flore d’Amérique (1843-46), in via : https://t.co/BsSdbkap5O

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2018-10-19

By publishing his "Deutschlands Flora" in a minute format (measuring only 13-15 cm), Sturm was able to make his German flora, containing 2472 engravings, less expensive & thus available to as many people as possible. Find it in https://t.co/5ivqMo7EOW

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2018-10-05

According to the preface of John Hill's "Exotic Botany", dried specimens were reconstituted for illustration by macerating them in warm water. Explore the 2nd ed. (1772) in for via Botany Libraries: https://t.co/1IiNCqBOzY

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2018-08-24

Amazon Water Lilies (Victoria amazonica) are white the first night that they open, and on the second night, they turn pink. by William Sharp for John Fisk Allen, Victoria regia (1854). Contributed to by : https://t.co/KhrKdfDWft

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2018-08-11

Papayas (Carica papaya) are described as treatments for parasitic worms in the digestive system in Flore Pittoresque et Médicale des Antilles, Vol. 1 (1821) by Michel Etienne Descourtilz with by Jean-Theodore Descourtilz. Via : https://t.co/Goq6XaQaBU

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2018-07-06

Britton & Rose’s "The Cactaceae" (1919-1923) is an early definitive taxonomic work on the family Cactaceae. It features stunning by artist Mary Emily Eaton. Explore the work in via NYBG: https://t.co/YI3ODY5TRB

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2018-05-19

European mistletoe (Viscum album) is a hemi-parasitic shrub that grows on the stems of other trees. from J. Sturm's "Flora von Deutschland", Bd. 4 (1905) by Ernst H.L. Krause. Contributed to by : https://t.co/oylOcK7Dct

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2018-05-12

Tiger Lily (Lilium bulbiferum) for by Sarah Anne Drake for Edwards's Botanical Register, Vol. 32 (1846), edited by John Lindley. Contributed to by the Peter H. Raven Library of the : https://t.co/6QcpZAEgxa --

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2018-04-20