Marianne North Gallery

542. View of Matang, Borneo

An Epiphyte (Ficus) twined around one of the trees in the foreground. These stranglers often survive alter their victims (the trees upon which they germinated and commenced life having rotted away), standing like gigantic lattice-work shafts, crowned

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Borneo, Epiphyte, Froeground, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Matang, Painting, Tree, Twined

522. View in the Cochineal Gardens at Santa Cruz, Teneriffe

Women taking off the rags in which the newly hatched insects (Coccus cacti) are pinned to the Cactus plants (Opuntia coccinellifera, Steud.). After being left a few day the insects attach themselves to the plants, and no longer need the rags. The Coc

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Brazil, Cactus Plants, Canary Islands, Cochineal Gardens, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Mexico, Painting, Rags, Santa Cruz, Teneriffe

517. Study of Olives, painted in Italy

The Olive (Olea europaea, L.), is a tree of very slow growth, and is usually small ; but it attains a great age, and some of the very old trees have trunks of enormous girth. It has been cultivated in the countries bordering the Mediterranean from ti

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Fruit, Italy, Leaves, Marianne North, Oil, Olives, Painting, Tree