Victorian Gallery

713. View of Lake Wakatipe, New Zealand

New Zealand Flax (Phormniumn tenax, Forst.) in the foreground. This is the most useful plant in the islands. Half-a-pint of honey juice can be obtained from the flowers of a single plant ; a gum is exuded where the leaves are broken away from the ste

© RBG KEW

713, Art, Lake Wakatipe, Landscape, Marianne North, New Zealand, Painting, Phormium Tenax, Victorian

262 African Baobab Tree in the Princesss Garden at Tanjore, India

Adansonia digitata, Linn., the African Baobab, is remarkable for the gigantic proportions of its relatively short trunk, which sometimes, it is recorded, exceeds 100 feet in girth in its native country, tropical Africa. in consequence of the enormous

© RBG KEW

Africa, Baobab, India, Mrianne North, Oil, Painting, Tanjore, Traveller, Tree, Victorian

Fallopia japonica - Japanese Knotweed

Tab.6503. - Fallopia japonica as Polygonum cuspidatum the original illustration is by Anne Barnard, watercolour on paper, 1880;
The plate, 6503, was published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, volume 106, and is a hand-coloured lithograph by John Nugent Fitch after the original drawing by Anne Barnard, 1880

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