China Collection

Portrait of E H Wilson
Ernest Henry " Chinese" Wilson, better known as E. H. Wilson, was a notable English plant collector who introduced a large range of about 2000 of Asian plant species to the West; some sixty

658. Distant View of Mount Fujiyama, Japan, and Wistaria
This beautiful, hardy, climbing shrub Wistaria chinensis, DC. is a native of China and Japan, and was introduced into this country about the year 1816

294. The Sacred Lotus or Pudma
Nelumbium speciosum, Willd. is the most beautiful and graceful of all the Water Lilies, its leaves and flowers usually rising considerably above the surface of the water;

Joseph Rock (1884-1962), a Viennese-born naturalist, author and linguist. From 1922 to 1949 he travelled through south-west China studying the flora, peoples, culture and languages of the region

13. Two Climbing Plants of Chili and Butterflies
Hanging above Tacsonia pinnatistipula, Juss. (syn. T. chilensis, Miers); below the dull purple flowers and green fleshy edible fruit of Lardizabala biternata, Ruiz et Pav

UK Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010; the " Seed Cathedral"

Taiwania
TAXODIACEAE, Taiwania, cryptomerioides, Taiwan, China, Burma

Fritillaria anhuiensis, woodblock print and manuscript on paper, Honzo Zufu, 1828
Illustration of Fritillaria anhuiensis, commonly known as baimo or fritillary, from Honzo Zufu or Illustrated Manual of Medicinal Plants by Iwasaki Tsunemasa (1786- 1842) also known as Kan en

Primula denticulata (drumstick primula). Family: Primulaceae

Men laden with Brick tea for Tibet, 1908
Tachienlu (now Kanding), West Sichuan, China : Men laden with Brick tea for Tibet. One mans load weighs 317 lbs, the others 298 lbs

633. Rice Harvest, near Bandong, Java
The working buffaloes, though very savage towards men, get fond of the boys who drive them and habitually sit on their backs

Malus hupehensis
ROSACEAE, Malus hupehensis, 1568608233

Abies forrestii
PINACEAE, Abies forrestii, forest fir

Malus hupehensis
ROSACEAE, Malus hupehensis, 1568608233

Boston ivy
VITACEAE, Parthenocissus, tricuspidata, 33878, China, Korea, Japan

Maidenhair
GINKGOACEAE, Ginkgo, biloba, 196921506, China

Arum
ARACEAE, Arisaema, candidissimum, China, Tibet

Acer davidii trunk
ACERACEAE Acer davidii 1994924SICH630 china

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