Images Dated 2011 May

380. A common Plant on sandy sea-shores in the Tropics

This lovely trailer (Ipomoea blob, Forsk, is found on almost all sandy sea-shores in the tropics as well as in some subtropical regions, including many of the most remote oceanic islands. It is a most vigorous plant, its stems sometimes attaining a h

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Blue, Flower, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Pink

499. A Tripod Cocoanut, Mahe, Seychelles

The hut is made of the plaited leaves of the cocoanut and roofed with the same in the natural state.
In an early state the ovary of the future fruit of the cocoanut is three-celled, each cell containing a single ovule ; but two of these are almost

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Landscape, Leaves, Mahe, Marianne North, Painting, Seychelles

495. Screw-Pines, Palms and Ferns, from path near Venns Town, M

The Screw Pine (Pandanus sechellarum, Balf. f.) on the left is the same species as that in 480, and exhibits perhaps the maximum intensity of aerial root-formation. In front, on the right, is a tuft of Asplenium Nidus, Linn., with the tree fern (Cyat

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Landscape, Leaves, Mahe, Marianne North, Painting, Plams, Venns Town