Images Dated 2011 March

244. Singular Plants of the Dark Forests of Singapore and Borneo

These highly curious organisms are members of a small family (the Burmanniaceae), related to the Orchidaceae. Some of them draw their nourishment from decaying vegetable matter, hence are called saprophytes ; some from the roots of other plants to wh

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Borneo, Flower, Forest, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Singapore, Yellow

713. View of Lake Wakatipe, New Zealand

New Zealand Flax (Phormniumn tenax, Forst.) in the foreground. This is the most useful plant in the islands. Half-a-pint of honey juice can be obtained from the flowers of a single plant ; a gum is exuded where the leaves are broken away from the ste

© RBG KEW

713, Art, Lake Wakatipe, Landscape, Marianne North, New Zealand, Painting, Phormium Tenax, Victorian