EditorialCambogia, Print, Garcinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Clusiaceae native to Asia, America, Australia, tropical and southern Africa, and Polynesia. The number of species is disputed between various sources: with Kew Gardens recognizing u...
EditorialGamboge, Garcinia morella (Hebradendron cambogioides var. pedicellata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.
EditorialHipericon Preforata.' Hypericum perforatum, also known as hypericum, hypericum, wort or St. John's wort, is the most abundant species of the family of garcinia (Guttiferae) or hipericáceas (Hypericaceae). . Coloured drawings of plants, copied from na...
EditorialGamboge, Garcinia morella (Hebradendron cambogioides var. pedicellata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.
EditorialKokum, amsool or brindall, Garcinia indica. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialHanbury's garcinia or Indian gamboge tree, Garcinia hanburyi (Garcinia morella var. pedicellata). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialSiam gamboge or Hanbury's garcinia, Garcinia hanburyi. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialBrindleberry or garcinia cambogia, Garcinia gummi-gutta, and turmeric, Curcuma longa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.
EditorialMundu or rata, Garcinia dulcis (Sweet-fruited xanthochymus, Xanthochymus dulcis) tropical fruit, flower, leaf, fruit in section. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical ...
EditorialMangosteen, Garcinia mangostana, with fruit, bud, flower, leaf and section of ripe fruit. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a Ge...
EditorialBrindleberry, Garcinia gummi-gutta, with flower, leaf, fruit and section. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the b...
EditorialPurple mangosteen tree, flower, leaf and fruit, Garcinia mangostana 1, and rattan tree, Calamus rotang, branch and leaf 2, and "dragon's blood" fruit 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Childre...
EditorialGambooge, Garcinia gummi-gutta. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1780 with 500 ...