Flower Collection (page 8)

Bee garden at Kew

Allium nigrum, 1808
Illustration of Allium nigrum, commonly known as ornamental onion. Watercolour and pencil on paper by Sydenham Edwards, 1808. Original artwork from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, volume 29, plate 1148

Dietes huttonii, 1875
Current accepted plant name is Moraea huttonii, commonly known as moraea or Cape tulip. Watercolour and pencil on paper by Walter Hood Fitch, 1875

Galanthus elwesii, 1875
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper by Walter Hood Fitch, 1875. Artwork from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, volume 101, plate 6166

Helleborus orientalis. Family: Ranunculaceae

Hosta Sum and Substance (plantain lily Sum and Substance ). Family: Asparagaceae

Lupinus The Govenor (Band of Nobles series). Family: Papilionaceae

Jasminum nudiflorum (winter jasmine). Family: Oleaceae

Lupinus My Castle
Lupinus, My Castle (lupin). Family: Papilionaceae

Verbena bonariensis (Argentinian vervain). Family: Verbenaceae

Salvia officinalis (Common sage) in flower. Family: Lamiaceae

Sedum Herbstfreude
Sedum (Herbstfreude Group) Herbstfreude, Sedum spectabile Autumn Joy. Family: Crassulaceae

Viburnum x bodnantense Dawn. Family: Adoxaceae (formerly Caprifoliaceae)

Hyssopus officinalis var. roseus (Hyssop). Family: Lamiaceae

Ajuga reptans (bugle). Family: Lamiaceae

Geranium endressii (Endres cranesbill). Family: Geraniaceae

Primula denticulata (drumstick primula). Family: Primulaceae

Cleistocactus baumannii. Family: Cactaceae

Pilosocereus piauhyensis. Family: Cactaceae

Mammillaria laui subs dasyacantha
Mammillaria laui. Family: Cactaceae

Galanthus nivalis Neil Fraser, snowdrop. Family: Amaryllidaceae

Galanthus ikariae, snowdrop. Family: Amaryllidaceae

Galanthus gracilis, snowdrop. Family: Amaryllidaceae

Galanthus rizehensis, snowdrop. Family: Amaryllidaceae

Allium ursinum, Wild garlic flowers
Allium ursinum, wild garlic flowers. Family: Amaryllidaceae

Wisteria at Wakehurst Mansion
Wisteria covering Wakehurst Mansion, RBG Kews estate in Sussex

Iris Dell with flowering azaleas, Wakehurst Place, Sussex. To the southeast of the Black Pond is a water body and waterfall surrounded by Japanese irises, maples and rhododendrons

Crataegus intricata, Copenhagen hawthorn or thicket hawthorn. Family ROSACEAE. Photographed at Wakehurst Place, West Sussex. Ref: 31793, North America

Cymbidium hookerianum orchid. Curtis, ??s Botanical Magazine, vol. 92 [ser. 3, vol. 22]: t. 5574 (1866) Artist: W.H. Fitch

Cuminum cyminum, 1789
Illustration of Cuminum cyminum, commonly known as cumin, from Icones Plantarum Medicinal by Joseph Jacob Plenck, 1789, volume 2, plate 192

Large Flowering Sensitive Plant. Mimosa pigra. Illustration from New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus by Robert J. Thornton, London, 1799, Publ. Dr. Thornton. Tab. 17 T.017

Cornus nuttallii x florida
CORNACEAE, Cornus nuttallii x florida (1969-12748)

Punica granatum, pomegranate. Joseph Jacob Plenck, Icones Plantarum Medicinal, Vol. 4, 1791, Tab. 376, t. 376

Capsicum annuum, chilli pepper. REGNAULT Nicolas Francois (1746-c.1810) and Genevive de Nangis REGNAULT (b.1746). La Botanique mise a la portee de tout le Monde

Juglans regia (walnut), 1887
Illustration of Juglans regia from Kohlers Medicinal Plants, 1887

Foeniculum officinale, fennel
Foeniculum officinale as Foeniculum vulgare, commonly known as sweet fennel. Illustration from Flora von Deutschland, Osterreich und der Schweiz by Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thome, Vol. 3, 1888

Pisum sativum, garden pea. Fabaceae family. Illustration from Flora von Deutschland, Osterreich und der Schweiz by Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thome, plate 453

Trichoglottis smithii orchid. ORCHIDACEAE

Maxillaria luteo grandiflora

Ansellia africana
Ansellia Africana, leopard orchid or African ansella. Orchidaceae

Dr R. Melville, scientist at Kew, 1940 s
Dr R. Melville, scientist at Kew, working under Dr Hutchinson, Keeper of Museums, during the 1940 s, is seen here scraping pollen onto glass from a South African marigold

Amorphophallus titanum flowering, 1901
The Titan arum, Amorphophallus titanum is known as the corpse flower in its native Indonesia because of the rancid smell, described by Curtiss Botanical magazine as a mixture of rotten fish

Vegetable plot
Detail of horticulture students vegetable plot, with pansies, RBG Kew

Nymphaea Siam Pink, waterlily

Snowdrop, galanthus nivalis
Galanthus nivalis, common snowdrop. Galanthus nivalis was described by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum in 1753, and given the specific epithet nivalis

Lysichiton camtschatense

Nymphaea Piyalarp
2008-933 PRWA, NYMPHACEAE. Nymphaea Piyalarp

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