EditorialEastern prickly pear, Opuntia ficus-indica (Opuntia vulgaris). Handcoloured lithograph by D. Blair after an illustration by Lena Lowis from her Familiar Indian Flowers with Coloured Plates, L. Reeve, London, 1878. Lena Lowis, formerly Selena Caroline S...
EditorialPrickly pear or Indian fig opuntia, Opuntia ficus-indica (Opuntia vulgaris). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896.
EditorialFicus Indica sive Opuntia, Indian figs, Fol. 230r, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialDudaim Mautz ficus indica, Parallel title: Dudaim Mautz Indian figs, Signed: J. A. Friderich sculp, copperplate engraving, pl. XCI (Bd. 1), F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Fridrich, Jacob Andreas (sculp.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Kupfer-Bibel (...). Au...
EditorialFor the fig tree leaf, which have arisen from a single running all to Tell Eystettensis, Opuntia ficus-indica, copperplate engraving, p. 800, Besler, Basilius; Jungermann, Ludwig, 1713, Basilius Besler: Hortus Eystettensis (...). N?rnberg, 1713.
EditorialCochineal cactus or Indian fig opuntia, Opuntia ficus-indica, with cochineal beetle, Dactylopius coccus. Kermes beetle, Kermes vermilio, with Kermes oak, Quercus coccifera. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch f...
EditorialTHE GREAT BANYAN, OR SACRED TREE, OF INDIA (Ficus indica). A banyan (also banian) is a fig that starts its life as an epiphyte (a plant growing on another plant) when its seeds germinate in the cracks and crevices on a host tree (or on structures like ...