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Plants, Toxic

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Images about Plants, Toxic

75 images from works
  • Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna): flowering plants growing in woodland. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Chinese lantern (Physalis alkekengi): fruiting stem. Watercolour by B. Bird.
  • Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum): leaves and fruits. Pen drawing, partially coloured.
  • Foxglove (Digitalis fuscescens): two sections of the flowering stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.
  • A plant related to birthwort, (Aristolochia longa L.): flowering stem with separate rhizome and sections of fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • A Christmas rose (Helleborus niger), a poppy (Papaver species) and borage (Borago officinalis): flowering stems. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): flowering plant. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Tobacco (Nicotiana sp.): flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea): flowering plants. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Strophanthus dichotomus Decne.: flowering branch with separate numbered sections of flower, follicle and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Works from the collections

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    Nux-vomica plant (Strychnos nux-vomica): flowering stem, sectioned fruit and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.

    Burnett, M. A., active 1850. | Date: [1847] | Reference: 23824i
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    Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

    | Date: [1774] | Reference: 16859i
    • Books

    Range and pasture management / by Arthur W. Sampson.

    Sampson, Arthur W. (Arthur William), 1884-1967. | Date: 1923
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    Du yao ben cao / zhu bian Yang Cangliang ; fu zhu bian Pan Zhiqiang [and others].

    | Date: 1993
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    Iacobi Grevini Claromontani Bellovaci Parisiensis medici ... De venenis libri dvo. Gallice primvm ab eo scripti, et à multis hactenus Latini desiderati / et nunc tandem opera et labore Hieremiæ Martij ... in Latinam sermonem ... conuersi. Quibus adiunctus est prætereà eiusdem auctoris de antimonio tractatus [and Nicandri ... theriaca and alexipharmaca] Eodem interprete, vnà cum rerum memorabilium, præcipuè ad operis calcem, Indice.

    Grévin, Jacques, 1538?-1570. | Date: 1571

Related topics

Plants, Medicinal
Botany
Plants, Useful
Plants
Plants, Cultivated
Plants, Ornamental
Ranunculaceae
Solanaceae
Ethnobotany
Indians, South American

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