Seed Pod Collection

Poppies with Seed Pods, mid 1760s. Creator: Jean Baptiste Marie Huet
Poppies with Seed Pods, mid 1760s

Thorn Apple, Germander and Purple Toadflax, from Hortus Eystettensis, by Basil Besler
I Datura Turcarum; II Polium folys & facie Lavendulae; III Linaria purpureo vislacea elatior; Besler was an apothecary in Nuremberg and was in charge of the gardens at the Prince Bishop near Eichstat;

Lotus Cup, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), mid 17th / 18th century. Creator: Chen Mingyuan
Lotus Cup, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), mid 17th/18th century. Drinking vessel in the form of a lotus leaf with hollow stalk

Gelsiminvm indicvm flore phoeniceo, 1633. Creator: Johann Friedrich Greuter
Gelsiminvm indicvm flore phoeniceo, 1633. Flowers and seed pod. From De Florum Cultura, [Rome]

Ornament: fish, lotus leaf, and lotus seed pod, Goryeo period, 12th-13th century

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Battle Scene in a Landscape, from Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util, 1645

Ashoka Tree Flower, Leaves, Pod, and Seed, first half 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Ashoka Tree Flower, Leaves, Pod, and Seed, first half 19th century

A Radish Plant, Seed, and Flower, late 18th century. Creator: Unknown
A Radish Plant, Seed, and Flower, late 18th century

Peony: Paeonia Faemina Flore Pleno Rubro Majore, 1769, (1946). Creator: John Edwards
Peony: Paeonia Faemina Flore Pleno Rubro Majore, 1769, (1946). Botanical illustration from " The British Herbal Containing One Hundred Plates of The most beautiful and scarce Flowers

Greater Celandine, 1839, (1944). Creator: Unknown
Greater Celandine, 1839, (1944). Botanical illustration from " British Flowering Plants" by William Baxter. Published in " Wild Flowers in Britain", by Geoffrey Grigson

Cinchona. The Caribbean Jesuits Bark, 1801. Creator: Unknown
Cinchona. The Caribbean Jesuits Bark, 1801. Cinchona, source of the anti-malarial remedy quinine, from Encyclopaedia Londinensis, published by John Wilkes c1796-1828

Indian Summer, 1883. Creator: Unknown
Indian Summer, 1883. From " St. Nicholas: Volume X. Part I. November 1882, to May 1883". [Scribner & Co. New York, 1883]

Two Studies of Rushes in Seed, c1480 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Two Studies of Rushes in Seed, c1480 (1945). From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

Durva Agrostis Linearis of Dr Koenig, 1799. Johann Gerhard Koenig (1728-1785) was a German botanist and physician who worked as naturalist for the Nawab of Arcot in India

Prosopis Aculeata, 1799. A print from Asiatic Researches or Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal, for Inquiring into the History and Antiquities, the Arts

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