Images Dated 2011 February

226. View of the Himalaya Mountains from Mussooree

Roses and Rhododendrons in the foreground

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Bushes, Foreground, India, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Mountains, Mussooree, Painting, Rhododendrons, Roses, Snow Peaks

185. Vegetation of the Desert of Arizona

There are various Cacti, including the Suarrow or Suguaro of the Mexicans (Cereus giganteus, Englm.), the largest and most striking member of the family, sometimes as much as sixty feet high, and two feet in diameter. The plant with whip-like branche

© RBG KEW

Arizona, Art, Artist, Cactus, Desert, Flower, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Mountains, Orange, Painting, Red

234. Foliage and Flowers of the Indian Rhododendron grande

A native of the Sikkim Himalaya, where it forms a tree thirty feet high or more, at elevations of 8000 to 9500 feet. It is in this region that the genus Rhodedendron reaches its greatest development, both in number and diversity of species. Sir Josep

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Blue, Flower, Himalaya, India, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Pink, Rhododendron, Sikkim, White