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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Appointments with plants
In our ‘always on’ culture, poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett find a route away from screens – by following the ways of the trees and plants outside.
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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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A graveyard of plants for the people I love
Searching for her own ceremony to acknowledge the passing of her grandmother, Jennifer Neal turned to plants. The ritual she created was personal and loving, and celebrated life as well as acknowledging loss.
Catalogue
- Books
Plants used against cancer : a survey / Jonathan L. Hartwell.
Hartwell, Jonathan L., 1906-Date: [1982], ©1982- Archives and manuscripts
Plants
Date: 1877-1883Reference: MS.2868Part of: Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica- Archives and manuscripts
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'Plants'
Date: 1905-1914Reference: WA/HMM/CO/Ear/720Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Archives and manuscripts
Plants suitable for cultivation at Windsor
Date: c.1915Reference: MS.2902/3Part of: Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica- Books
Plants and prejudice / D.J. Mabberley.
Mabberley, D. J.Date: [1995]