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Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): flowering plant. Colour process print, c. 1924.
Date: 12 January 1924Reference: 25596i
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Two men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina). Wood engraving, c. 1867.
Date: [1867-1875]Reference: 20950i
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Grape vine with fruit and leaves. Pencil drawing.
Reference: 22223i
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Oregano (Origanum vulgare) and ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea): entire flowering plants. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
Naudin, Philibert, active 1870.Date: [1865]Reference: 24689i
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Pflanzen der Liebe : Aphrodisiaka in Mythos, Geschichte und Gegenwart / Christian Rätsch ; Vorwort von Albert Hofmann.
Christian RätschDate: [1990]
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Tangier pea (Lathyrus tingitanus L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate mature fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17621i
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Old trunk of a toddy palm tree (Caryota urens). Watercolour by H. Schlagintweit.
Schlagintweit-Sakünlünski, Hermann von, 1826-1882.Date: 1854 to 1858Reference: 21747i
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Dishcloth gourd (Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.): flowering stem with separate sectioned fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16728i
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Foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea): flowering plants. Colour process print, c. 1924.
Date: [1924]Reference: 25608i
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Kapok or silk cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) growing by a village in Surinam. Coloured lithograph by P. Lauters, c. 1839, after P. J. Benoit.
Pierre Jacques BenoitDate: [1839]Reference: 21020i
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A plant (Reseda sp.) related to Dyer's rocket: flowering plant with separate flowering stem. Watercolour, 17--.
Reference: 18624i
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Two flowering plants: meadow saxifrage (Saxifraga granulata) and wall pepper or stonecrop (Sedum acre).
Naudin, Philibert, active 1870.Date: [1865]Reference: 24750i
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Adder's tongue (Ophioglossum vulgatum L.): fertile stem with description of the plant and its medicinal uses. Coloured line engraving by J. Basire, the younger, c. 1759, after T. Sheldrake.
Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1740-1770.Date: [1759]Reference: 18156i
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Yate (Eucalyptus cornuta Labill.): flowering and fruiting stem with floral segments. Engraving by C. Dien, c.1798, after P. J. Redouté.
Pierre-Joseph RedoutéDate: [1798]Reference: 18513i
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Liquorice plant (Glycyrrhiza echinata): flowering stem with pod and seed. Coloured engraving, c. 1792, after F. J. Schultz.
Schultz, Franz Johann.Date: [1792-1804]Reference: 20791i
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An empire of plants : people and plants that changed the world / Toby and Will Musgrave.
Musgrave, TobyDate: 2000
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Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) with many spreading aerial roots. Aquatint by T. Medland, c. 1807, after J. Cordiner.
Cordiner, James, the rev., 1775-1836.Date: 4 June 1807Reference: 20994i
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Burnet (Sanguisorba sp.): entire flowering plant with separate flowers. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16896i
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Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.): flowering stem and separate cluster of fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17484i
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Catalogue des plantes médicinales et économiques : suivant leurs caracteres génériques & spécifiques, conformément à la méthode sexuelle du chevalier Linné / Démontrées par le sieur Antoine Banal cadet.
Banal, Antoine.Date: 1784
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Niepa Bark Tree (Quassia indica (Gaertner) Nooteb.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16113i
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Spindle-tree (Euonymus europea): fruiting stem. Watercolour, 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 21068i
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Angelica (Angelica archangelica): root segments and stem with bud. Watercolour.
Reference: 22744i
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Champedak (Artocarpus polyphema Pers.): fruiting branch with numbered sections of fruit, inflorescence and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.Date: [1885]Reference: 16332i
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Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans): stem with fruit and nut and floral segments. Coloured lithograph by C. Rosenberg, c. 1850, after himself.
Rosenberg, C. T., active approximately 1850.Date: [1850-51]Reference: 26353i