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Botanical illustration and the park: Orchid album :comprising coloured figures and descriptions of new, rare and beautiful orchidaceous plants .......11 vols, BHL/Missouri Botanical Gardens............. https://t.co/U9o7SObBUG

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2020-06-05

It's a poisonous + ☠️ 🍄🌼

"A table of vegetable poisons" (1843) describes the characteristics, locales, and effects of poisonous plants & mushrooms found throughout the world. Find it in via ➡️ https://t.co/hkeH2EO3qb

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2020-05-29

The ☀️ is shining in VA today, so here are two cheerful sunflowers – one nourishing a local pollinator in our formal garden, and one brightening the pages of “Hortus Eystettensis” (Basilius Besler, 1561-1629) in our library. Happy

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2020-05-15

Happy hybrid (Cattleya × elegans). from Lindenia, v.5 (1889), which was digitized by the Mertz Library of for : https://t.co/76dd5pFicC. Explore more from this volume in a newly added album: https://t.co/tDVQ3xwTDr

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2020-04-11

🌺 🦋🌸 Hardy (Fuchsia magellanica) attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. from Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Vol. 11 (1856), edited by Louis Van Houtte. View in thanks to the : https://t.co/bfZH8xfziq

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2020-02-29

Happy China Pinks (Dianthus chinensis) found in Belgique Horticole, T.9 (1859) by Charles Morren and Edouard Morren. Explore more in with thanks to the Mertz Library of the for digitizing: https://t.co/1Fg1Nuti6k

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2020-01-11

For we bring you some plates from our favorite book, The of Great Britain & Ireland. These life size prints were created using the 18th century nature printing process, which the book author is keen to note is the ONLY accurate type of scientific illustration.

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2019-11-16

(Thunia bensoniae) for this from The Floral World and Garden Guide, Vol. 14 (1871), edited by Shirley Hibberd. View more in with thanks to the Mertz Library of the for digitizing: https://t.co/WmYnGSgDh0

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2019-10-12

Lily of the Palace (Hippeastrum aulicum). by William Jackson Hooker for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 61 (1834). View more in with thanks to Raven Library of the for digitizing: https://t.co/tMx4lAIx7S

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2019-08-24

The last member of the Commelinaceae we have in is Tradescantia (spiderwort). Like Murdannia, these have that are also subtended by a leaf-like bract & are actinomorphic, grow in umbels or cymes, are blue or white, & have 5-6 fertile stamens.

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2019-08-09

(Laelia superbiens) by Sarah Ann Drake for The Orchidaceae of and (1843) by Jason Bateman. View more in : https://t.co/5Qr5NKHOEJ

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2019-04-20

Flip through the pages of 'Flora's lexicon : an interpretation of the language and sentiment of flowers' (1840) 💐 including an outline of & poetical introduction by Waterman, Catharine H. via https://t.co/UOONXBctBJ

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2019-03-16

🍫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

Purple (Magnolia liliiflora) for by William Clark for Richard Morris, Flora Conspicua (1826). View more in with thanks to the Mertz Library of for digitizing: https://t.co/6iaryqShDW --

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2018-08-17

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