Nutmeg Collection

Myristica sp. nutmeg
Plate 73 from Botanicum Medicinale (1759) by Timothy Sheldrake. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Green and red seeds of nutmeg and mace, Myristica fragrans Houtt.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

I had a Little Nut Tree
I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear but a silver nutmeg & a golden pear The king of Spains daughter came to visit me, all for the sake of my little nut tree

Nyrustuca moschata, nutmeg
Illustration by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Assortment of spices, which are used as flavourings for food

Classic rum punch sprinkled with nutmeg, Grenada, West Indies, Central America

Mace and nutmeg, Myristica fragrans (Myristica officinalis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Green and pink seeds of nutmeg and mace, Myristica fragrans Houtt.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Nutmeg / Various Parts
MYRISTICA. Diagramatical representation of the various parts of the nutmeg tree including a branch & leaves, the fruit, mace & seed or nutmeg

Green and pink seeds of nutmeg and mace, Myristica fragrans Houtt
5855627 Green and pink seeds of nutmeg and mace, Myristica fragrans Houtt.; (add.info.: Green and pink seeds of nutmeg and mace, Myristica fragrans Houtt)

Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans
5856564 Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans; (add.info.: Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by J. Schaly from G. T)

Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph
FLO4995132 Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany

Muscadier - Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans, with flower, nutmeg seed and mace aril
FLO4600000 Muscadier - Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans, with flower, nutmeg seed and mace aril. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A

Nutmeg: Myrsitica fragrans, showing fruit containing nut surrounded by ari, the source of mace
533363 Nutmeg: Myrsitica fragrans, showing fruit containing nut surrounded by ari, the source of mace. Hand-coloured engraving c1798; (add.info.: Nutmeg: Myrsitica fragrans)

Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans (Nux moschata). Handcoloured lithograph by A.M
FLO4638151 Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans (Nux moschata). Handcoloured lithograph by A.M. Traice after an illustration by A.W

Green and red seeds of nutmeg and mace, Myristica fragrans Houtt
5855626 Green and red seeds of nutmeg and mace, Myristica fragrans Houtt.; (add.info.: Green and red seeds of nutmeg and mace, Myristica fragrans Houtt)

Green seeds and leaves of wild nutmeg and mace, Myristica fatua Houtt
5855629 Green seeds and leaves of wild nutmeg and mace, Myristica fatua Houtt.; (add.info.: Green seeds and leaves of wild nutmeg and mace, Myristica fatua Houtt)

Green seeds and leaves of wild nutmeg and mace
5855628 Green seeds and leaves of wild nutmeg and mace; (add.info.: Green seeds and leaves of wild nutmeg and mace, Myristica fatua Houtt)

Muscadier and clove - Mace and nutmeg tree, Myristica fragrans, and clove spice tree, Syzygium aromatium, 2
FLO4576457 Muscadier and clove - Mace and nutmeg tree, Myristica fragrans, and clove spice tree, Syzygium aromatium, 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Christiane

Mace and nutmeg, Myristica fragrans. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair
FLO4985300 Mace and nutmeg, Myristica fragrans. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London

Nutmeg. Description of the wall fruit and details showing the spice and seed
FLO4581593 Nutmeg. Description of the wall fruit and details showing the spice and seed. Illustration by Wiliam Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), British botanist and writer

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Nutmeg (colour litho)
3116986 Nutmeg (colour litho); (add.info.: Myristica fragrans Kohler's Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erlauterndem Texte)

Mace and nutmeg, Myristica fragrans. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by
FLO4674538 Mace and nutmeg, Myristica fragrans. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A

Nutmeg, red flannel and silver, 1926. Creator: Unknown
Nutmeg, red flannel and silver, 1926

Jessore, Bangladesh. Loose nutmeg for sale at a local market

Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans, Myristica officinalis, Muscadier
5324482 Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans, Myristica officinalis, Muscadier by Maubert, Louis Joseph Edouard (1806-1879); (add.info.: Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans)

Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica moschata, Myristica fragrans
5856752 Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica moschata, Myristica fragrans by Sowerby, James (1757-1822); (add.info.: Leaves and branches with nutmeg seed (kernel) and mace (aril)

Ms Lat 993 L. 9. 28 fol. 98v Coconut Merchant from the Tractatus de Herbis by Dioscorides (vellum)
XIR159275 Ms Lat 993 L.9.28 fol.98v Coconut Merchant from the Tractatus de Herbis by Dioscorides (vellum) by Italian School, (15th century); Biblioteca Estense, Modena, Emilia-Romagna

Le Vocabulaire Illustre: Noix muscade; Nutmeg; Muskatnusz (engraving)
7196851 Le Vocabulaire Illustre: Noix muscade; Nutmeg; Muskatnusz (engraving) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Noix muscade; Nutmeg; Muskatnusz)

Economic plants, hand-colored lithograph, published in 1880
1) Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera), 2) Black pepper (Piper nigrum), 3) Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans), 4) Almond tree (Prunus dulcis), 5) True indigo (Indigofera tinctoria)

Spice plants (colour litho)
3621806 Spice plants (colour litho) by Koekkoek, Marinus Adrianus (1873-1944); Private Collection; (add.info.: Spice plants: clove; nutmeg; cinnamon; black pepper; allspice or pimento)

Nutmeg (chromolitho)
2788904 Nutmeg (chromolitho) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Nutmeg. Liebig card, published in late 19th or early 20th century)

Sweet gale moth, scarce dagger and knot grass moth
Sweet gale moth, Acronicta euphorbiae 1-5, scarce dagger, Acronicta auricoma 6, and knot grass moth, Acronicta rumicis 7-9

Scarce dagger, sycamore, nutmeg and varied coronet moths
Scarce dagger, Acronicta auricoma 1-3, sycamore moth, Acronicta aceris, nutmeg moth 4, 5, Hadula trifolii 6 and varied coronet, Hadena compta 7

Toucan Ariel on a Muscadier and Butterfly Protesilas - in "
LSE4094806 Toucan Ariel on a Muscadier and Butterfly Protesilas - in " Le jardin des plantes: complete historical and picturesque description of the natural history museum" by Lamaout

Pied Mannikin, Fawn and White, Chestnut and White, Spotted Sided Finch or Diamond Sparrow
5218208 Pied Mannikin, Fawn and White, Chestnut and White, Spotted Sided Finch or Diamond Sparrow, Nutmeg or Spice-Bird (colour litho) by European School

Seed and fruit plants including cacao, calabash nutmeg, pawpaw, sugar apple, durian, tea, camellia, cotton, magnolia, peony, geranium, nasturtium, etc

Calabash nutmeg, Monodora myristica, Monodore aromatique. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alphonse-Leon Noel after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans (Nux moschata). Handcoloured lithograph by A.M. Traice after an illustration by A.W. from Edward Hamiltons Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852

Nutmeg and clove spice trees
Mace and nutmeg tree, Myristica fragrans, and clove spice tree, Syzygium aromaticum, 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr

Nutmeg plantation 1868
Island of Penang, in the Indian Ocean by the Strait of Malacca, consisted of a vast plantation of fruit trees of which the nutmeg was run by an English enterprise

Noix de muscade. Gravure - in "Kreutterbuch Dess Hochgelehrten unnd
GIA4733445 Noix de muscade. Gravure - in " Kreutterbuch Dess Hochgelehrten unnd weitberuhmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli" par Pietro Andrea Mattioli (Matthiole) (1500-1577)

The Capture of the Island of Banda, August 9th 1810, engraved by Thomas Sutherland for J
STC131125 The Capture of the Island of Banda, August 9th 1810, engraved by Thomas Sutherland for J. Jenkinss Naval Achievements, 1816 (colour engraving) by Whitcombe

Myristica fragrans - Muscadier (Myristica officinalis). botanical board, 19th century
LSE4089369 Myristica fragrans - Muscadier (Myristica officinalis). botanical board, 19th century. Bibl. of the Deco Arts. by Unknown Artist, (19th century); Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs, Paris

Vomic nuts - Nutmeg and mace, Myristica moschata, leaf, seed and fruit. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by
FLO4603844 Vomic nuts - Nutmeg and mace, Myristica moschata, leaf, seed and fruit. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin

Nutmeg (Myristica moschata) (engraving)
3653646 Nutmeg (Myristica moschata) (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Nutmeg (Myristica moschata)

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Nutmeg: A Spice with a Rich History and Exquisite Flavor Myristica sp. Nutmeg, also known as Myristica fragrans or Nyrustuca moschata, is a fascinating spice that has captivated taste buds for centuries. Derived from the green and red seeds of the nutmeg and mace tree, this aromatic ingredient adds depth and warmth to countless dishes. Just like the nursery rhyme "I had a Little Nut Tree, " nutmeg holds an enchanting allure. Its green and pink seeds are carefully harvested to unlock their incredible flavors. These seeds are then dried and ground into a fine powder or used whole in various culinary creations. Originating from Grenada in the West Indies, Central America, it has become synonymous with classic rum punch recipes sprinkled generously with its fragrant dust. The island's fertile soil provides the perfect conditions for cultivating this precious spice. Venturing beyond Grenada, you'll find Jessore in Bangladesh where local markets proudly display loose nutmeg for sale. This versatile ingredient is not only cherished for its flavor but also valued for its medicinal properties across different cultures worldwide. The nutmeg tree itself stands tall as an evergreen beauty - Myristica fragrans or Myristica officinalis - exuding elegance wherever it grows. It produces both nutmeg and mace; while the former refers to the seed encased within a hard shell, mace refers to the vibrant red aril surrounding it. When combined with an assortment of spices, such as cinnamon or cloves, nutmeg elevates any dish it graces. Its distinct aroma fills kitchens with warmth during holiday baking sessions or cozy family dinners. Beyond its culinary uses, this remarkable spice offers numerous health benefits too. From aiding digestion to reducing inflammation and promoting relaxation – there's more than meets the eye when it comes to these unassuming little seeds.