Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Active filters:

Tropical vegetablesReset filters
9 results
  • Bromelia karatas L.: flowering stem with roots and separate sections of fruit with seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Two plants (Pisonia sylvestris and Pisonia alba ): flowering and leafy shoots with separate numbered flower and fruit sections. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Japanese pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata): tear-drop shaped fruit. Watercolour.
  • Wax gourd (Benincasa hispida): one box shaped fruit. Watercolour.
  • Bromelia karatas L.: longitudinal section of flowering stem with roots. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Amaranthus spinosus L.: flowering stem with separate root and floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • 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.
  • Two water chestnuts (Eleocharis dulcis) and a root of Shan kui. Watercolour.
  • Japanese pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata): rounded fruit. Watercolour.