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  • Aralia spinosa L. Araliaceae. Devil's walking stick, Prickly ash, Hercules' club. Tree. Distribution: Eastern North America. Contact with sap causes skin irritation, raw berries mildly toxic to humans, causing diarrhoea and vomiting. Eaten by bears. Used medicinally by Native Americans for a variety of conditions. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Fatsia japonica (Thunb.) Decne. & Planch. Araliaceae False castor oil plant. Distribution: Japan, South Korea. Not even in the same family as the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis. An ornamental plant, Fatsia from the Japanese word for 'eight' hachi referring to the eight-lobed leaf. The sap can cause dermatitis. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ivy leaves. Pen and pencil drawings.
  • Ivy leaves. Watercolours.
  • American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius): flowering stem, root and leaf. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1810, after S. Edwards.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.