EditorialSquirting cucumber or exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium (Momordica elaterium). Handcoloured zincograph by Chabots drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett d...
EditorialAnonymous, British, 19th century, Design from the Momordica Charantia by P. Moorgesan, Anonymous, British, 19th century, 19th century, Commercial Lithograph, Sheet: 7 15/16 ? 6 1/2 in. (20.1 ? 16.5 cm).
EditorialBalsam apple female, Momordica balsamina, and deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atl...
EditorialThorn apple, Datura metel, and balsam apple, Momordica balsamina. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustration...
EditorialAmerican momordica out of net profit, Luffa operculata (L.) Cogn, signed: P.S. (sculp.), Fig. 22, p. 22, p. 73, Sluyter, P. (sc.), 1706, Caspari Commelin ... Horti Medici ... plantae rariores et exoticae. Lugduni Batavorum: apud Federicum Haringh, 1706.
EditorialBalsamina, Momordica, Viticella et Balsamina foemina, Balsam puffalo and another balsam puff family, fol. 445r, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franck...
EditorialLa Momordique de la Chine. Bitter gourd or bitter melon, Momordica charantia. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de ...
EditorialBalsam apple female, Momordica balsamina, and deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atl...
EditorialThorn apple, Datura metel, and balsam apple, Momordica balsamina. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustration...
EditorialFruit plants. Hortus Eystettensis, sive diligens et accurata omn. George Mack, Nuremberg, 1613. I. Balsamina foemina. II. Momordica III. Balsamina. Bitter lemon plants. Image taken from Hortus Eystettensis, sive diligens et accurata omnium plantarum, ...
EditorialLa Momordique de la Chine. Bitter gourd or bitter melon, Momordica charantia. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de ...
EditorialBalsam apple female, Momordica balsamina, and deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atl...
EditorialThorn apple, Datura metel, and balsam apple, Momordica balsamina. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustration...
EditorialNagareishi, goya or bitter gourd, Momordica charantia. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900.
EditorialTsurureishi, goya or small bitter melon, Momordica charantia var. pavel. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900.
EditorialSquirting cucumber or exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium (Momordica elaterium). Handcoloured zincograph by Chabots drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett d...
EditorialBalsam apple, Momordica balsamina. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J.C. Leitner from a drawing by B. Thanner from Johannes Zorn's "Icones plantarum medicinalium," Germany, 1796. Zorn (1739-99) was a German pharmacist and botanist who travelled al...