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Araceae

Family of plants

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Images referencing Araceae

29 images from works
  • Four flowering plants, including cuckoo-pint, sweet flag and two pondweeds. Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Tannia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium).
  • Arum lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica): inflorescence and leaf. Watercolour.
  • Eight plants, including two orchids, a gardenia and a clematis: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • A species of the genus Arum: fruiting spadix with separate leaves and single sectioned fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Five flowering plants, one possibly a voodoo lily (Sauromatum venosum). Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • A species of the genus Arum: spadix, leaf and tuber. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Flamingo flowers (Anthurium scherzerianum): flowers and leaves. Coloured lithograph, c. 1862, after W. Fitch.
  • Friar's cowl (Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Four plants, all with different forms of bracts, sheaths or spathes. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
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Works from the collections

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    Four flowering plants, including cuckoo-pint, sweet flag and two pondweeds. Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.

    | W. Dickes & Co. | Date: [1855] | Reference: 24828i
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    Yellow arum lily (Zantedeschia elliottiana): inflorescence and leaf. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 21124i
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    Friar's cowl (Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

    | Date: [1774] | Reference: 16905i
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    Seven garden plants, including an iris: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

    | Date: 1834 | Reference: 27453i
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    Arum lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica): inflorescence and leaf. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 21126i
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Botany
Plants
Plants, Cultivated
Plants, Ornamental
England
History, 19th Century
Plants, Useful
Carnivorous Plant
History, 18th Century
Japan

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