Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Stories

  • Article

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.

  • Article

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.

  • Article

Foraging for a taste of the past

Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.

  • Article

How we bury our children

Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.

All stories (5)

Images

  • Two plants, possibly pinks (Dianthus species): flowering stems. Watercolour.
  • Five plants, possibly pinks (Dianthus species): flowering stems. Watercolour.
  • Four plants, possibly pinks (Dianthus species): flowering stems. Watercolour.
  • Seven flowering plants, one possibly a kingcup and six pinks (Dianthus species). Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Two plants: herbaceous stems with pink flowers. Watercolour.
  • Two plants, one a pink (Dianthus species): flowering stems. Watercolour.
  • A plant, possibly a pink (Dianthus species): two flowering stems. Watercolour.
  • Three flowering plants, one possibly a pink (Dianthus species). Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • A plant of the Urticaceae family: flowering stem with pink, catkin-like inflorescences. Watercolour.
  • Three plants, one of the Compositae family: flowering stems with pink and yellow flowers. Watercolour.
All images (73)

Catalogue

All works (113)