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  • Brassica rapa (oilseed rape)
  • Brassica rapa (oilseed rape).
  • Nepal; Kathmandu Valley, 1986. The Kathmandu Valley is situated in Nepal's Hill Region ('Pahar' in Nepali - altitutides 1000-4000 metres), and is the country's most fertile and urbanised area as well as being its political and cultural centre. The hills, sculpted into a vast complex of terraces, are extensively cultivated. Hill farmers produced food staples, mostly rice and corn, although this is still a food-deficit area. Other crops include wheat, millet, barley, sugarcane, tobacco, potatoes and oilseed. The climate is mild with summer temperatures reaching 30 degrees C and winter temperatures about 10 degrees C. The most common trees are oak, alder, jacaranda and rhododendron.
  • A workshop in which oils are made from trees, nuts, berries etc. for foodstuffs and medicines. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Flax plant (Linum species): flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • Garden rocket (Eruca vesicaria (L.) Cav. subsp. sativa (Miller) Thell.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • Olive (Olea europaea) and Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia): flowering branches and floral segments. Colour and coloured mezzotint, c. 1741.
  • A plant (Atalantia spinosa): branch with flowers and fruit, cross-section of fruit, seed and style.
  • Margosa (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.): branch with flowers and fruit, separate clusters of flowers and fruits and sections of fruit. Coloured line engraving.
  • An olive plant (Olea europea): fruiting branch. Coloured lithograph by B. Chirat, c. 1850, after himself.
  • Gold-of-pleasure or false flax (Camelina sativa): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1803.
  • Sasanqua camellia plant (Camellia sasanqua): flowering stem and nut. Engraving by J. Miller, c. 1771.
  • Niepa Bark Tree (Quassia indica (Gaertner) Nooteb.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • A plant (Crambe hispanica L.): flowering stem with separate root and floral segments. Coloured etching by M.Bouchard, 177-.
  • A large kokerite palm (Maximiliana maripa) and the artist drawing it, in a tropical landscape. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1855.
  • Dhak or palas tree (Butea monosperma): flowering branch with fruit and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.
  • Olive tree (Olea europaea): flowering stem with fruit and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1843.
  • An opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): seed capsule. Watercolour.
  • Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata L.) with swollen trunk. Lithograph after R. McCormick, c. 1884.
  • Yellow horned poppy (Glaucium flavum Crantz.): entire flowering and fruiting plant with seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • A camellia (Camellia japonica): a double red and single white flower. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans): stem with fruit and nut and floral segments. Coloured lithograph by C. Rosenberg, c. 1850, after himself.
  • Rape (Brassica napus): flowering stem, leaf and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1810.
  • Indian almond (Terminalia catappa L.): leaves, tree, fruit, flowers, seed and cross-sections of fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.): flowering stem with separate fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Six British wild flowers, four types of flax (Linum species) and two wood sorrel (Oxalis). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
  • Yellow horned poppy (Glaucium flavum Crantz.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate root and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • Horse-radish tree (Moringa oleifera Lam.): branch with flowers and separate flower, pods and seeds. Coloured line engraving.
  • Castor oil plant (Ricinus communis): flowering and fruiting stem, leaf and fruit sections. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.
  • Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): white flowers, seed capsule and seeds. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.