Desert Collection

185. Vegetation of the Desert of Arizona
There are various Cacti, including the Suarrow or Suguaro of the Mexicans (Cereus giganteus, Englm.), the largest and most striking member of the family, sometimes as much as sixty feet high

19. View near Quilpue, Chili
On the rocks in front a gigantic species of Calceolaria, with Puya chilensis, Molina, above, and Boldo trees and Columnar Cacti in the distance

The Welwitschia mirabilis
Oil on canvas. Inscribed in paint on verso The Welwitschia mirabilis, Nyanka Kykamkop or plant of Hykamkop or Otjitumbo Otjihooro. Stump with a head. South West Africa T. Baines

Mesembryanthemum simplex, 1793
Watercolour and pencil on paper by Francis Masson, 1793. Field sketch made by Masson in the Cape of Good Hope

Decabelone barklyi, 1875
Hand coloured lithograph of Decabelone barklyi, currently accepted as Tavaresia barklyi. This is a colour proof for plate 6203, from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, published 1st December 1875

Welwitschia mirabilis, Hook. f
Hand coloured lithograph. Plate 5368 from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, published 1863

360. Doum and Date Palms on the Nile above Philae, Egypt
Among Palms the Doum (Hyphaene thebaica, Mart.) is remarkable for having normally a branched trunk, instead of a single trunk with a terminal crown of leaves

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

Stapelia olivacea, 1876
Original illustration from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, published as plate 6212, 1st February, 1876. Watercolour and pencil on paper. Sent to Kew by H.E

Stapelia corderoyi, Hook. f
Original illustration from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, published as plate 6082, 1st February 1874. Watercolour and pencil on paper

Carnegiea gigantea, 1878
Illustration of Carnegiea gigantea, commonly known as saguaro, from Reports upon the Botanical Collections Made in Portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona

Sandunes between Sesriem to Sossusvlei
Sesriem to Sossusvlei, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Collecting Sesamum abbreviatum
Sesriem to Sossusvlei, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Petrified sandunes near to Namib lodge
Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Kuiseb river canyon, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

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

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

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

Guanikontes to Welwitschia Plain, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Moonscape east of Swakopmund
Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Guanikontes in the Swakopmund river valley
Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

The Great Tree-Aloe of Damaraland (Aloe dichotoma)
Oil on canvas. Inscribed in paint on verso of canvas The Great Tree-Aloe of Damaraland, South West Africa, about 20 feet in height

Sandunes
Sesriem to Sossusvlei, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Acacia erioloba
Sesriem to Sossusvlei, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Welwitschia mirabilis
Welwitschia Plain, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Acacia erioloba
Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

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

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

Mesembryanthemum sp
Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

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

Desert landscape
Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Mesembryanthemum truncatellum, Haw
Original illustration from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, published as plate 6077, 1st January 1874. Watercolour and pencil on paper. From a plant sent to Kew which flowered in October 1873

Seed Collection in the Namibian Desert
Sesriem to Sossusvlei, RBG Kew botanists seed collecting expedition to Namibia, 2007

RBG Kew botanists Expedition to Jordan
Kew botanists on expedition in the Dana Nature Reserve, Jordan 2001. The tree (left) is a pistachio, Pistacia vera

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

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

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

Acanthocicyos horridus
Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

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