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Red Water Lily of Southern India
Marianne North 1830-1890 English Botanical Artist
"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 #BHLib via @mobotgarden ➡️ https://t.co/NWd3obwDoI #BotanicMonday
FINALLY another #FamilyoftheWeek! This time we’ll be exploring the Cactaceae (cactus family).🌵These are eudicots with spines (highly modified leaves) & many have the iconic fleshy photosynthetic stems (specifically subfamilies Cactoideae & Opuntioideae). #botany @BioDivLibrary
Botanicals: Chlidanthus fragrans, Perfumed Chlidanthus https://t.co/rkBhSVOwtU
week 316: The Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus named the genus, Tradescantia, in honour of a pair of English gardeners and plant collectors; the John Tradescants, father (1570-1638) and son (1608-1662). Discover more at https://t.co/jaWEaulJLr
These botanical pottery tea lights by @peonboyle.printmaker are such simple yet intricate designs. They’d make the perfect gift for any nature lover! Peon has plenty of stock available as she has just delivered some handmade brooches, notebooks and limit… https://t.co/Iojh0jRGQt
It's that time of year when the Cafe Botanicus crew hoards Avi's flower shop for festive decor 🎄💐
@chefgao1 more team members! @hotflamingmess and @juulfuneral164 as our planetary geologist and botanist
Its #NationalPoinsettiaDay! This beauty from the Alfred Riocreux botanical watercolors collection, courtesy of our Botany Libraries, is one of the thousands of images recently made available via @HarvardLibrary's CURIOSity Digital Collections site! https://t.co/Zsf8YPYQyx
Personally I think it would be cool to have ingredient cards that look like this, like a vintage botany book.
"Meet Ynes Mexia, late-blooming botanist whose adventures rivaled Darwin’s." #WomenInSTEM https://t.co/VYnDdASkKR
Various attempts have been made to "read" her paintings in terms of the plants and insects shown in them, but generally they were simply treasured for their beauty and "cleverness". In this painting there are several botanically correct plants, with various insects on them.
The Botanical Magazine or Flower Garden Displayed: Stately Crinum, S. Curtis, 1823 https://t.co/mcXZA4RzW3 #cmaprints #cmaopenaccess
#Orchids grown by the Royal Botanic Society in Regent’s Park, c.1880.
The Royal Botanic Society was founded by James De Carle Sowerby (son of naturalist James Sowerby) in 1839, and leased 18 acres of in Regent’s Park for experimental gardening, till it dissolved in 1932.
#BornOnThisDay 'quinologist' John Eliot Howard (1807-1883) - expert in botany and chemistry of #cinchona, #quinine, government advisor and collector of many of @KewScience specimens. https://t.co/YSdzg7LMfk
Merry Botanical Christmas! Victorian Christmas card. I wonder what this plant is called? #Plants #Flowers #Gardening #Horticulture