Flowering Plant Gallery

Lavender pollen grain, SEM

Lavender pollen grain. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a pollen grain (yellow) amongst the petal (papilla) cells (purple) of a French lavender (Lavandula dentata) flower. The pollen shows the round, sculpted protein coat characteristic of lavender. Pollen is produced by the male sex organs in lavender flowers and dispersed by insects to the female sex organs of other lavender flowers, where the eggs (ova) are fertilised. Magnification: x2476 when printed 10 centimetres wide

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Cypripedium reginae, ladys slipper orchid. Also known as pi

Although the current name of this orchid is Cypripedium reginae, the name on the original plate reads Cypripedium spectabile, which may have been the name accepted at the time. Watercolour by Franz Andreas Bauer ca.1810-1840. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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18th Century, Angiosperm, Angiospermae, Asparagales, Bauer, Botanical, Cypripedioideae, Cypripedium, Cypripedium Reginae, Flower, Flowering Plant, Flowers, Francis, Francis Bauer, Illustration, Lady, Lady Slipper Orchid, Long, Magnoliophyta, Monocot, Monocotyledon, Orchid, Orchidaceae, Orchids, Pink, Pink And White Orchid, Plant, Slipper, Slipper Orchid

Ocimum sanctum, holy basil

An illustration of leaves and branches of holy basil (Ocimum sanctum), also known at Tulsi. By James Kerr (1738-1782). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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18th Century, Angiosperm, Angiospermae, Asterid, Basil, Dicot, Dicotyledon, Eudicot, Flowering Plant, Green, Herb, Holy, Holy Basil, Illustration, James, James Kerr, Kerr, Labiatae, Lamiaceae, Lamiales, Leaf, Magnoliophyta, Ocimum, Ocimum Sanctum, Plant, Plant Culture, Tulsi