Images Dated 2011 July

828. View of the Bell Mountain of Quillota, Chili, with colonise

Among emigrant plants none has perhaps taken almost sole possession of such vast areas as the European Cardoon (Cynara Cardunculus, Linn.). which is the wild parent of the Jerusalem Artichoke. Both in Chili and east of the Andes in temperate South Am

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Art, Artist, Bell Mountain, Cardoons, Chili, Colonised, Foreground, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Quillota

809. View at Morro Velho, Brazil

A Yucca and the candelabrum-like American Aloe (A gave americana, L.) in flower in the foreground. This should not be confounded with any of the species of the genus Aloe (see 505 and 528), all of* which are natives of the Old World, and chiefly of S

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Art, Artist, Brazil, Leaves, Marianne North, Marro Velho, Painting, South Africa, V Iew, Yucca Aloe

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

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