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

228. The Taj Mahal at Agra, North-West India

This magnificent mausoleum was built by the Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Arjamand Benu Begum, who died in 1629. The Taj was finished in 1648. In the foreground Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima, Wilid.), Bougainvillea, Cypresses, and a species of

© RBG KEW

Agra, Arjamand Benu Begum, Art, Artist, Foreground, India, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Poinsettia, Rattan Palm, Shah Jahan, Taj Mahal

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