Images Dated 30th June 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

698. Two Swamp Plants of Java in Flower

The snow-white flowers of the Costus speciosus, Sm., like those of most of its allies, are very fugitive, but the red bracts from which they spring are more durable. Cassia alata, Linn., belongs to a genus numerous in species, generally diffused in w

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Flowers, Java, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Swamp Plants

686. Volcanoes from Temangong, with Sugar Palms in the foregroun

The trunk of this palm (Arenga saccharifera, Lab.) when dead is hollow, and furnishes very durable underground water-pipes. The black fibre obtained from the leafsheaths and used as cordage is noted for its power of resisting wet. Finally, the sap yi

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Foreground, Java, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Sugar Palms, Temangong, Volcanoes