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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections

A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.

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Beyond a green carpet

Plant ecologist Sara Middleton explores the amazing symbiotic relationships between the species that make up grasslands, and considers their future as rain becomes more scarce.

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Indian botanicals and heritage wars

Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.

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  • Seven tropical flowering plants, all species of the genus Gomphia. Coloured lithograph.
  • Five flowering tropical plants, all species of the genus Siphocampylus. Coloured lithograph.
  • Five tropical flowering plants, all species of the genus Gesneria. Coloured lithograph.
  • Three tropical flowering plants, all species of the genus Gesneria. Coloured lithograph.
  • Three tropical plants, all species of the genus Lophostachys: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
  • Singapore: a large bungalow for British officers with tropical plants in the garden. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1880.
  • A tropical landscape with native chamal plants (Dioon edule). Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1855, after P. Stroobant.
  • A Vespetro label illustrated with tropical plants and animals. Lithograph by E. Goy, 19th century, after G. Brunner.
  • Screwpines (Pandanus species) covered with climbing plants, surrounded by lush tropical vegetation. Wood engraving, c. 1867, after C. Whymper.
  • Cupid inspiring plants with Love, in a tropical landscape. Coloured stipple engraving by T.Burke, ca. 1805, after P. Reinagle.
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