Admirées, symboles de l'#amour et de la les sont de belles messagères et bien plus encore aux yeux de nos comme Pierre-Joseph Redouté surnommé le "Raphaël des

⤵️ https://t.co/hYhYVnPpg4

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For this weeks here is a lovely sketch that was probably used for teaching purposes. It's based on specimens collected by Lyell & figured by Bunbury. Miller illustrated the published text....but these are very much 🔍🎨🌿

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From the 1850s, superb botanically accurate watercolours of flowers and plants by Susan Monteith Broadwood (SHC ref 2185/V16) from the extensive archives of John Broadwood and Sons https://t.co/4XGuahVc9h. Susan even had a fungus named after her!

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Joining in with so here's a lovely illustration of cardamom, known as ‘chief of all seeds’ by 17thc herbalists due to wide ranging medicinal properties. Was also used in folk medicine as a fertility treatment

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Pour terminer la semaine sur une note d'exotisme une sélection (difficile !) de fleurs à couper souffle, à retrouver dans le volume de planches du Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle 🌸
👉 https://t.co/7KCSRSRSJZ

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These are from the 8-volume "Familiar Wild Flowers" by H. Edward Hulme: https://t.co/jurOpdlaaG

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