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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