Economic Botany Gallery

Choose from 24 images in our Economic Botany Collection

Cochineal beetle harvest, by Eadweard Muybridge

Cactus indicus, ca 18th century

Gossypium herbaceum, Willd. (Cotton)

Indigofera tinctoria (Indigo), 1826

Cinchona bark specimens

Lagerstroemia regina, Willd

Gossypium herbaceum, Willd. (Dacca cotton)

Gossypium obtusifolium, R. (Cotton)

Fish Tongues used to grate Guarana

Strychnos potatorum, Willd. (Clearing nut)

Diospyros ebenum, K├Ân. (Ebony)

Diospyros melanoxylon, Willd. (Ebony)

Lawsonia inermis, Willd. (Henna)

Gossypium religiosum, Willd. (Nankeen or brown cotton)

Quercus tinctoria (Black oak, Q.velutina)

Model of indigo factory, 1886

Manufacture of Sugar at Katipo

Cactus chinensis, R. (Opuntia ficus-indica)

Japanese hemp production circa 1910

Preparing cinnamon, Sri Lanka, 1880 s

Drying coffee in the Straits Settlements, Southeast Asia, 1899

Preparing cinnamon quills for drying, Sri lanka, 1880 s

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