Plants Gallery
Available as Licensed Images. Choose your image, select your licence and download the media
Choose from 33 images in our Plants collection.

Lyreleaf nightshade with red berries (Solanum lyratum Thunb), woodblock print and manuscript on paper, 1828

Roses (Rosa multiflora or Rosa polyantha), woodblock print and manuscript on paper, 1828
Wood block print and manuscript on paper, Japan, 1828. The wood block prints meassure approximately 25 cm in height. The wood block print is from Honzo Zufu or Illustrated manual of medicinal plants by Iwasaki Kan'en, also known as Iwasaki Tsunemasa, 1786-1842. This botanical manual was compiled during the Tokugawa era (1603-1867)
© The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Cultivation of Cinchona succirubra trees on the Madulsima Cinchona Cos estate, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1882

Stereograph, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
This stereograph of the interior of one of the T-Range glasshouses shoes a sign requesting visitors to keep to the right and to refrain from touching the plants. Stereographs were extremely popular from the 1850s until the early 20th century and were used to illustrate key visitor attractions. this image depicting left and right eye images of the same scene would have been viewed through a stereoscope and appear to the viewer to be a single three dimensional image
© RBG KEW