Botanical Art Gallery
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Featured Botanical Art Image
Cyclamen africanum Boiss. & Reut. (Algerian Cyclamen)
Original illustration from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, published as plate 5758, 1st February 1869. Watercolour and pancil on paper. A common Algerian plant, it was sent to the Royal Gardens by Giles Munby, Esq., Col. Playfair, Consul-General of Algeria, and other parties, and it flowers abundantly in September. The tubers sometimes attain the size of a large turnip
© RBG KEW
Featured Botanical Art Image
Stapelia Maculosa (Spotted-Flowered Stapelia), 1816
Hand-coloured engraving by unknown artist was published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 43, Plate 1548, in 1813. Illustration is made with watercolour and pencil on paper. Family name of plant is Asclepiadaceae. Curtis's Botanical Magazine is the longest running botanical periodical featuring colour illustrations of plants and has been published continuously since 1787
© RBG KEW
Featured Botanical Art Image
Haemanthus quadrivalvis Jacq. ('Hairy-leaved Scarlet Haemanthus'
Original illustration from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, published as plate 1523, 1st January 1813. Watercolour and pencil on paper. This species was introduced into Kew from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr Masson [Masson, Francis (1741-1805)] in 1774. This drawing was made from a plant that flowered in Mr Griffin's conservatory at South Lambeth in October 1812
© RBG KEW
