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Dye plants

Plant from which a dye can be extracted

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  • Bugloss or alkanet (Anchusa officinalis L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Memecylon umbellatum Burm.f.: branch with flowers and fruit, separate fruit and seed and sections of flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.
  • Mangrove Tree (Rhizophora mucronata Lam.): branch with flowers and fruits and separate sectioned flower and fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • A marigold (Tagetes species): flowers and leaf. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.
  • Sappanwood tree (Caesalpinia sappan): flowering branch, pod and thorns. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.
  • A flowering marvel of Peru plant (Mirabilis jalapa) and nine diagrams illustrating refraction of light. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1817.
  • Common sawwort (Serratula tinctoria): two flowering stems and two separate leaves of different forms. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
  • Dyer's rocket plant (Reseda luteola) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • Tumeric (Curcuma longa L.): rhizome with flowering stem and separate leaf and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Dog's mercury (Mercurialis perennis): flowering plant with roots. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
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    A tropical plant (Memecylon edule): flowering branch. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1815.

    | Date: [1817] | Reference: 25523i
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    A marigold (Tagetes species): flowers and leaf. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.

    Frederick Edward Hulme | Date: [1879-1887] | Reference: 24347i
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    Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): flower and young fruit. Coloured aquatint after J. Forbes, 1769.

    James Forbes | Date: [1st June 1813] | Reference: 20096i
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    Onosma arenaria: entire flowering plant and seed. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.

    Johann Schütz | Date: [1802/12] | Reference: 18482i
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    Broom (Genista sibirica): flowering stem with pod and seed. Coloured engraving, c. 1792, after F. J. Schultz.

    Schultz, Franz Johann. | Date: [1792-1804] | Reference: 20787i
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Related topics

Plants, Useful
Botany
Plants
Plants, Cultivated
Plants, Medicinal
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
England
Tropical plants
Plants, Ornamental

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