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  • Japanese oak (Quercus mongolica): tree branch with acorns. Watercolour.
  • A fruiting tree branch and enlarged single pod. Watercolour.
  • A two toed sloth climbing a tree. Coloured etching.
  • A woman pulling giant aubergines from a tree. Watercolour.
  • An ancient oak tree. Lithograph by W. Delamotte, 1802.
  • A three toed sloth climbing a tree. Coloured etching.
  • Workers harvesting sago in a tropical wooded glade with a bilimbi tree, a sago palm, a durian tree and a pepper plant. Engraving, c. 1777.
  • East Indian Screw Tree (Helictores isora L.): branch with flowers and fruit, separate dehisced fruit and sectioned fruit with seeds. Coloured line engraving.
  • Niepa Bark Tree (Quassia indica (Gaertner) Nooteb.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. Mimosaceae. Australian Blackwood. Tree. Distribution: Eastern Australia. Tree. Invasive weed in South Africa, Portugal, California. Local uses: analgesic. Causes allergic contact dermatitis due to 2,6,dimethoxybenzoquinone. Pinnate leaves of young plant drop off and phylloclades are formed instead. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Shivaite yogi accosts a woman under a banyan tree. Chromolithograph.
  • Indian Medicinal Plants and Drugs. Fragments of a Petrified tree
  • A Lemurine opossum climbing on a tree. Etching by Eastgate.
  • A family tree of skin diseases. Coloured engraving, c. 1835.
  • A flowering tree branch with a separate germinating seed. Watercolour.
  • Two canary birds (finches) sitting on tree branches. Coloured etching.
  • Woodwork: felling the tree, planing, sawing, and instruments. Coloured lithograph.
  • Skull, resting on a tree-stump. Coloured chalk drawing, 18--(?).
  • The lime tree park at Liancourt. Etching by I. Silvestre.
  • A lynx climbing a tree. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A bear playing with soil near a tree trunk. Woodcut.
  • A prehensile porcupine climbing down a tree. Etching by Heath.
  • Tree in central Africa where David Livingstone's heart is buried, showing the inscription bearing his name. Copy photograph after original photograph by P. Weatherley.
  • Krishna, playing the flute, seated in a tree with the milkmaids' clothes, while they, naked and in water gather around the tree begging for their clothes. Chromolithograph.
  • Three men carousing beneath a mulberry tree, with verses of a song comparing the life of humans to the life of a tree. Etching after I. Cruikshank, 1808.
  • Plants growing by a fallen tree. Pencil drawing by A. Storer.
  • Two fruiting tree branches, possibly a Sorbus and Prunus species. Watercolour.
  • Old fir tree (Abies webbiana) with pendulous lichens. Watercolour, c.1856.
  • The blossom and fruit of a coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Photograph.
  • Green tree snake (Chondropython viridis), coiled around a branch. Photograph, 1900/1920.