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

© The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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

793. Foliage, Flowers, and Seed-vessel of the Opium Poppy

This plant (Papaver somniferum, L.) has been cultivated in Eastern countries from the most remote time for the sake of the inspissated juice, called opium ; it is largely grown in Asia Minor, Persia, India, and China. Morphia, one of the alkaloids ex

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Flowers, Foliage, Leaves, Marianne North, Opium Poppy, Painting, Pink, Seed Wessel, Yellow

557. View of Matang and River, Sarawak, Borneo

Palms (Arenga saccharifera, Labill., &c.) and Mangosteens in the foreground. Toddy, or Palm Wine, an intoxicating drink, is made from the Arenga and sugar is obtained by boiling and evaporation of the sap of this palm. A good tree will yield 100 pint

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Borneo, Drink, Foreground, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Matang, Painting, Palms, River, Sarawak, Wine