Scientific, botanical, animal and nature illustrations.
Inspired by taxonomy.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Fragaria x ananassa ‘Old Pine’
A cultivar of Fragaria x ananassa Duchesne. ‘Fruit large, slightly hairy, with a neck of an uniform bright scarlet, ovate-conical, occasionally compressed, and when luxuriant the early fruits are cockscomb-shaped. Seeds slightly embedded. Flesh pale scarlet, rich, and juicy, with a very grateful flavour.
Theaceae - Camellia Auguste Delfosse.
: Vigorous, compact, evergreen shrub, valued for luxuriant rich green foliage and medium, peony form, deep red flowers.
Tropaeolaceae - a native Chilean plant.
(via Tropaeolaceae - Tropaeolum brachyceras Tropaeolum dicolorum - Tropaeolum tricolorum.)
Typha angustifolia L., ( also Lesser Bulrush or Narrowleaf Cattail or Lesser Reedmace).
This cattail is an “obligate wetland” species that is commonly found in the northern hemisphere in brackish locations.
Red Raspberry - Rubus idaeus
The beautiful colour-plates were lithographed in Belgium by G. Severyns. They depict flowers and fruit then growing in The Netherlands. Publication started in 1875 on the initiative of the Pomological Society at Boskoop. (via Rosaceae - Rubus idaeus Hornet Chilische.)
Adonis vernalis, known variously as pheasant’s eye, spring pheasant’s eye, yellow pheasant’s eye and false hellebore, is a perennial flowering plantfound in dry meadows and steppes in Eurasia.
(via Flora von Deutschland Österreich und der Schweiz (1885))
Aconitum napellus (Monkshood, “aconite”, “Wolf’s Bane”, Fuzi, “Monk’s Blood”, or “Monk’s Hood”) is a species of Aconitum in the family Ranunculaceae, native and endemic to western and central Europe.
(via Sudetenflora (1900))
Great tassel stonewort (Tolypella prolifera)
(via Band II. Algen. 2. Theil. Rhodophyceae, Phaeophyceae, Characeae (1909))
(via Flora Batava of Afbeeldingen (1868))
Ranunculus radians.
