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Two raspberry plant stems, one with a chrysalis attached. Watercolour.

Autumn leaves of bramble (Rubus species). Watercolour drawing.

Leaves and flowers of bramble (Rubus species). Pen and watercolour drawings.

Bramble (Rubus fruticosus): flowering and fruiting stems with floral segments. Coloured engraving, c. 1830, after J. Sowerby.

A thistle in the centre with a boar to the left facing a mastiff to the right, all surrounded by various plants and insects. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.

Cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus): flowering stem, fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1800.

Two plants, one a bramble (Rubus species): flowering stems. Watercolour.

Four British wild flowers with fruit; dewberry, two brambles and cloudberry . Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.

A dewberry plant (Rubus caesius) in flower with an associated moth and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.

Arctic raspberry (Rubus arcticus): flowering stem, root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1806.

Bramble (Rubus species): flowering and fruiting stems with leaf. Coloured engraving, c. 1829, after J. Sowerby.

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Rubus

Images from the collections

Images referencing Rubus

Works from the collections

Bramble (Rubus species): flowering and fruiting stems with leaf. Coloured engraving, c. 1829, after J. Sowerby.

Cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus): flowering stem, fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1800.

Arctic raspberry (Rubus arcticus): flowering stem, root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1806.

A thistle in the centre with a boar to the left facing a mastiff to the right, all surrounded by various plants and insects. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.

Autumn leaves of bramble (Rubus species). Watercolour drawing.

Rubus

Images from the collections

Images referencing Rubus

Works from the collections

Bramble (Rubus species): flowering and fruiting stems with leaf. Coloured engraving, c. 1829, after J. Sowerby.

Cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus): flowering stem, fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1800.

Arctic raspberry (Rubus arcticus): flowering stem, root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1806.

A thistle in the centre with a boar to the left facing a mastiff to the right, all surrounded by various plants and insects. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.

Autumn leaves of bramble (Rubus species). Watercolour drawing.

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