Images Dated 2011

658. Distant View of Mount Fujiyama, Japan, and Wistaria

This beautiful, hardy, climbing shrub Wistaria chinensis, DC., is a native of China and Japan, and was introduced into this country about the year 1816. The original plant was nearly killed through being kept in a hot-house

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Art, Artist, Blue, China, Flower, Japan, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Mount Fujiyama, Painting, V Iew, Wistaria

25. Inflorescence of the Blue Puya, and Moths, Chili

Common inhabitants of the Cordilleras are two noble representatives of the Pine-Apple Order, the Bromeliaceae, namely Puya Whytei, Hook., the present, and P. chilensis (see 19). In situations the most favourable to their development they attain a hei

© RBG KEW

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830. Vegetation on a stream at Chanleon, Chili

Lomaria procera, Spr., in front with Gunnera scabra, Ruiz. et Pay. and Fabiana imbricata, Ruiz. et Pay., on the right ; Araucaria imbricata, Pavon, behind; on the left, yellow Bueddleia globosa, Lam.. Proustia pyrifolia, Lag., and a gigantic sedge, (

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Art, Artist, Chanleon, Chili, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Stream, Vegetation