Images Dated 2009

818. Red Water Lily of Southern India

This is the Nymphaea Lotus, L. (N. rubra, Roxb.), and was painted at Cochin

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Cochin, India, Leaves, Marianne North, Nymphaea Lotus, Painting, Red, Southern

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

066, Screw Pines and Avenue of Royal Palms in the Botanic Gardens, Rio

The Screw Pine to the left in the foreground is a male plant in flower (see 246), and that on the right is a female in young fruit (see 692). For further particulars consult the descriptions of 246 and 571

© RBG KEW

Brazil, Gardens, Mountains, Painting, Palms, South America