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Africa Collection

Background imageAfrica Collection: Baobab trees between San and Mopti

Baobab trees between San and Mopti

Background imageAfrica Collection: 262 African Baobab Tree in the Princesss Garden at Tanjore, India

262 African Baobab Tree in the Princesss Garden at Tanjore, India
Adansonia digitata, Linn. the African Baobab, is remarkable for the gigantic proportions of its relatively short trunk, which sometimes, it is recorded

Background imageAfrica Collection: Pistia stratiotes Linn. (Water Lettuce)

Pistia stratiotes Linn. (Water Lettuce)
Original illustration from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, published as plate 4564, 1st February 1851. Watercolour and pencil on paper. Although the specimen figured is from Jamaica, Pistia stratiotes L

Background imageAfrica Collection: Hoodia bainii, 1878

Hoodia bainii, 1878
Original illustration of Hoodia bainii, currently accepted as Hoodia gordonii, from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, published as plate 6348, 1st March 1878. Watercolour and pencil on paper

Background imageAfrica Collection: Agapanthus africanus, 1800

Agapanthus africanus, 1800
Illustration of Agapanthus africanus, commonly known as African lily, lily of the Nile or blue lily. Hand-coloured lithograph on paper by Sydenham Edwards, 1800

Background imageAfrica Collection: 367. A. Giant Kniphofia near Grahamstown

367. A. Giant Kniphofia near Grahamstown
Kniphofia is a genus of the Liliaceae numbering about twenty known species, which inhabit Eastern Africa, from Abyssinia to the Cape, and Madagascar. The species here represented (K)

Background imageAfrica Collection: Hands holding Combretum fragrans seeds

Hands holding Combretum fragrans seeds

Background imageAfrica Collection: CNSF staff seed collecting from Pterocarpus erinaceus, Dinderess

CNSF staff seed collecting from Pterocarpus erinaceus, Dinderesso15km from Bobo Dioulasso

Background imageAfrica Collection: Plant portrait Combretum fragrans

Plant portrait Combretum fragrans

Background imageAfrica Collection: Baobabs on the road between Niangoloko and Banfora

Baobabs on the road between Niangoloko and Banfora

Background imageAfrica Collection: Seed pods of Entada abyssinica, north of Banfora

Seed pods of Entada abyssinica, north of Banfora

Background imageAfrica Collection: Hands with Bixa orellana seeds

Hands with Bixa orellana seeds

Background imageAfrica Collection: Dense forset in

Dense forset in Mozambique

Background imageAfrica Collection: Welwitschia mirabilis, Western Kalahari Desert

Welwitschia mirabilis, Western Kalahari Desert
Welwitschia Plain, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Seeds of Tripteris microcarpa

Seeds of Tripteris microcarpa
Guanikontes in the Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Flowers of Tapinanthes oleiifolius, LORANTHACEAE

Flowers of Tapinanthes oleiifolius, LORANTHACEAE
Guanikontes in the Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Guanikontes to Welwitschia Plain

Guanikontes to Welwitschia Plain, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Guanikontes in the Swakopmund river valley

Guanikontes in the Swakopmund river valley
Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Swakopmund river valley

Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Scorzonera undulata, Vahl

Scorzonera undulata, Vahl
Original illustration from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, published as plate 6127, 1st October 1874. Watercolour and pencil on paper

Background imageAfrica Collection: John Davenport Snowden and wife, Uganda 1916

John Davenport Snowden and wife, Uganda 1916
John Davenport Snowden, botanical explorer and plant collector, with his wife, standing outside their tent at a camp near Kampala, Uganda, in 1916

Background imageAfrica Collection: 483. Emiles Palm House, Praslin, Seychelles

483. Emiles Palm House, Praslin, Seychelles
This sylvan dwelling is constructed of the Cocoanut and Stevensonia Palms, rigged with the leaves of the Coco de Mer, of which the small hut is entirely made

Background imageAfrica Collection: 153. Foliage, flowers, and fruit of the Coffee, Jamaica

153. Foliage, flowers, and fruit of the Coffee, Jamaica
This is a small tree or shrub, native of the mountains of eastern tropical Africa, now cultivated and naturalised in the lower mountainous regions of many other tropical countries

Background imageAfrica Collection: Mt Namuli

Mt Namuli, Mozambique

Background imageAfrica Collection: Welwitschia mirabilis

Welwitschia mirabilis
Welwitschia Plain, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Acacia erioloba

Acacia erioloba
Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Flowers and seeds of Gomphocarpus filiformis

Flowers and seeds of Gomphocarpus filiformis
Guanikontes to Welwitschia Plain, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Fruit of Tapinanthes oleiifolius, LORANTHACEAE

Fruit of Tapinanthes oleiifolius, LORANTHACEAE
Guanikontes in the Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Mesembryanthemum sp

Mesembryanthemum sp
Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Gomphocarpus filiformis

Gomphocarpus filiformis
Guanikontes to Welwitschia Plain, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Desert landscape

Desert landscape
Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Dracaena smithii, Baker ex Hook. f

Dracaena smithii, Baker ex Hook. f
Original illustration from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, published as plate 6169, 1st. June 1875. Watercolour and pencil on paper

Background imageAfrica Collection: Linaria sagittata Hook. f

Linaria sagittata Hook. f
Original illustration from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, published as plate 6060, 1st October 1873. Watercolour and pencil on paper

Background imageAfrica Collection: Primula verticillata, Forsk. var. simensis Hochst

Primula verticillata, Forsk. var. simensis Hochst
Original illustration from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, published as plate 6042, 1st July 1873. Watercolour and pencil on paper. Native of Ethiopia

Background imageAfrica Collection: Pelargonium oblongatum, E. Meyer

Pelargonium oblongatum, E. Meyer
Original illustration from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, published as plate 5996, 1st October 1872. Watercolour and pencil on paper

Background imageAfrica Collection: Studying Kniphofia (red hot pokers) on an RBG Kew expedition to Malawi

Studying Kniphofia (red hot pokers) on an RBG Kew expedition to Malawi
A botanist from RBG Kew studies a Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker flower) in the field, Malawi, southeastern Africa, 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Plant hunter, Mozambique, southern Africa

Plant hunter, Mozambique, southern Africa
Kew botanist carrying a plant press for plant specimen collected on an expedition to Mozambique, southern Africa

Background imageAfrica Collection: Botanists camp on an expedition to Mozambique

Botanists camp on an expedition to Mozambique
RBG Kew botanists camp on an expedition to Mozambique, southern Africa

Background imageAfrica Collection: RBG Kew botanists expedition to Mozambique

RBG Kew botanists expedition to Mozambique. Carrying kit to camp

Background imageAfrica Collection: Herbarium preparation of Ipomoea eriocarpa in the field

Herbarium preparation of Ipomoea eriocarpa in the field
Herbarium preparation of Ipomoea eriocarpa on an expedition to Mali, West Africa

Background imageAfrica Collection: Kewites and wives Kampala, Uganda, 1923

Kewites and wives Kampala, Uganda, 1923
This group photograph of " Kewites and wives" was taken in Kampala, Uganda, in 1923. Second from the right: John Davenport Snowden, with his wife, centre

Background imageAfrica Collection: House of Walter Haydon, curator of the botanic station at Kotu in Gambia

House of Walter Haydon, curator of the botanic station at Kotu in Gambia
House of Walter Haydon, appointed curator of the botanic station at Kotu in Gambia in 1894. The house was built for him on site so that he could always command a view of all the ground under

Background imageAfrica Collection: Tripteris microcarpa

Tripteris microcarpa
Guanikontes in the Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Hermbstaedtia spathulifolia

Hermbstaedtia spathulifolia
Guanikontes in the Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Jamesbrittenia mexii

Jamesbrittenia mexii
Guanikontes in the Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Background imageAfrica Collection: Acanthocicyos horridus

Acanthocicyos horridus
Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007




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