The botanical treasury
Subtitle: celebrating 40 of the world's most fascinating plants through historical art and manuscripts
By: edited by Christopher Mills
Contributors: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Library, Art & Archives
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780226369341
Subjects: Botany; Botany in art; Pictorial works; Botanical illustration
Notes: "This book shows some truly extraordinary plants, and their associated stories will surprise and delight. ... In the pages following, the plants' stories are supported by a wide selection of wonderful images produced over the last 400 years. These paintings, prints and drawings, along with the supporting documents, are all reproduced from originals held in the Library and Archives of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew."--Introduction.
Table of contents: title: Sweet healer from the north; title: The bounty of Botany Bay; title: Ancestors from another age: baobabs; title: The fruits of paradise; title: Prickles, petals and twisted spines; title: A beauty from the east; title: The quest for quinine; title: Oranges and lemons ...; title: Plants that change body and mind; title: Seed plants from the dawn of time; title: From eastern medicine to western gardens; title: Growing with dinosaurs; title: Exploring the secrets of the bottle gourd; title: Lifeblood of the ancient world; title: The heavy price of sugar cane; title: Delicate dancers from the east; title: Everywhere over the rainbow; title: The search for the Siroi lily; title: The lotus: a sacred symbol of the east; title: The sky's the limit: magnificent magnolias across the world; title: Maize: a cereal bound for success; title: A beautiful carnivore; title: The power of poppies; title: Capturing the blue vanda; title: The orchid queen; title: Traveller of the tropics; title: Steeples from the Zambesi delta; title: Weaving fabric from the stuff of life; title: Power and glory: the climbing passionflower; title: Proud heralds of spring; title: Phoenix from the ashes; title: The secret plants of Sikkim; title: "one perfect rose": the delicate damask; title: From foul smells to inner stars; title: Kew's glorious "bird of paradise"; title: Fatal attraction: the "corpse flower" of Kew; title: The plant that sparked a flower frenzy; title: Queen of the waterlilies; title: Plant platypus: Angola's amazing tree-tumbo; title: Feed the world.