Stories
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Plant portraits
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
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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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Mandrake medicine and myths
There’s a lot of plant lore about the mandrake, going back to ancient times. Find out more about how this unremarkable-looking plant got its magical reputation.
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
![Medical botany, containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended on the catalogues of the materia medica ... with ... their medicinal effects ... / [William Woodville].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0025234/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Books
Medicinal plants of China / James A. Duke, Edward S. Ayensu.
Duke, James A., 1929-2017.Date: 1985- Books
Medicinal plants of Brazil / Walter B. Mors, Carlos Toledo Rizzini, and Nuno Alvares Pereira ; edited by Robert A. DeFilipps.
Mors, Walter B.Date: [2000], ©2000- Archives and manuscripts
Medicinal plants, their culture, preparation and marketing
Date: c.1920Reference: MS.2903/1Part of: Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica- Archives and manuscripts
Medicinal plants, their culture, preparation and marketing
Date: c.1918Reference: MS.2903/3Part of: Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica- Books
Medicinal plants / S.K. Jain.
Jain, S. K. (Sudhanshu Kumar), 1926-Date: [1968]
