Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
106 results
  • Two climbing plants: leafy stems. Watercolour.
  • The movements and habits of climbing plants / by Charles Darwin, F.R.S.
  • Screwpines (Pandanus species) covered with climbing plants, surrounded by lush tropical vegetation. Wood engraving, c. 1867, after C. Whymper.
  • Thunbergia alata Sims Acanthaceae. Black-eyed Susan. Tender, perennial herbaceous climbing plant. Distribution: East Africa. Named for Carl Peter (Pehr or Per) Thunberg (1743-1828), doctor, botanist, student of Linnaeus who collected plants in Japan, Sri Lanka and South Africa. He published Flora Japonica (1784)
  • A climbing leguminous plant: leafy stem with pods. Watercolour.
  • A climbing leguminous plant: leafy stem with pods. Watercolour.
  • A climbing leguminous plant: leafy stem with pods. Watercolour.
  • A climbing plant, possibly in the Cucurbitaceae family: flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • A man climbing a coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.) which stands by a banana plant (Musa sp.), in a waterside setting in Bombay, India. Engraving by J. Shury after J. Forbes, 1768.
  • Gloriosa superba L. Colchicaceae Gloriosa lily. Gloriosa rothschildiana is now a synonym. Climbing plant. Distribution: Southern Africa to Asia. National flower of Zimbabwe, state flower of Tamil Nadu. Contains colchicine which is poisonous, teratogenic and used for treating gout, Familial Mediterranean fever and Behcet's disease. Its toxicity limits its use as a anti-cancer agent. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Gloriosa superba L. Colchicaceae Gloriosa lily. Gloriosa rothschildiana is now a synonym. Climbing plant. Distribution: Southern Africa to Asia. National flower of Zimbabwe, state flower of Tamil Nadu. Contains colchicine which is poisonous, teratogenic and used for treating gout, Familial Mediterranean fever and Behcet's disease. Its toxicity limits its use as a anti-cancer agent. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A snake, a Cucumis plant and two birds. Engraving.
  • A creeping leafy plant stem. Watercolour.
  • Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia): stem with coloured autumn leaves. Watercolour.
  • Honeysuckle (Lonicera species): plant with labels to describe the colouring technique. Coloured pen drawings.
  • Honeysuckle (Lonicera species): flowers and leaves. Watercolour and pen drawings.
  • Grape vine on trellis. Pencil drawing.
  • A woody vine: flowering stem with leaves. Watercolour.
  • Four flowering plants, one possibly a delphinium. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Two leafy stems and one flowering plant. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • A shrub or liane, possibly an Akebia species: branch with grey fruit. Watercolour.
  • A grape vine (Vitis species): fruiting stem with separate leaves and fruit. Watercolour.
  • Leafy stem of a green brier (Smilax species) with fruit and leaves of an unidentified shrub. Watercolour.
  • A plant, possibly of the Apocynaceae family: woody stem with white flowers. Watercolour.
  • Monkeys gather tea leaves for a Chinese man waiting with a bowl. Coloured etching by A. Freschi, c. 1812.
  • Honeysuckle (Lonicera species): flowering stem. Pencil drawing.
  • A plant, possibly balsam apple (Momordica balsamina): fruiting stem. Watercolour by Depaoli.
  • Passion flower (Passiflora species): twining stem with flowers and fruit. Pen drawing.
  • Two plants, a fruiting clematis with separate seeds and a plant with blue fruits. Watercolour.
  • A wisteria plant: flowering stems. Watercolour.