Stories
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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.
Catalogue
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The useful plants of west tropical Africa / H. M. Burkill.
Burkill, H. M.Date: 1985-- Books
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The diseases of tropical plants / by Melville Thurston Cook.
Cook, Melville Thurston, 1869-1952.Date: 1913- Pictures
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Seven tropical flowering plants, all species of the genus Gomphia. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27178i- Pictures
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Five flowering tropical plants, all species of the genus Siphocampylus. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27243i- Archives and manuscripts
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Manuscript draft lecture notes titled 'Mountain plants of tropical South America'
Date: Oct 1971Reference: UGC 198/8/8/1Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland