EditorialTurk's head cactus, Melocactus caroli-linnaei. Taken from Candolle and Redoute, "Plantarum Historia Succulentarum." Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Be...
EditorialTurk's head cactus, Melocactus intortus (Greater Turk's cap melon thistle, Melocactus communis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," London, 1831.
EditorialTurk's head cactus, Melocactus caroli-linnaei. Taken from Candolle and Redoute, "Plantarum Historia Succulentarum." Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Be...
EditorialMelocactus violaceus, vulnerable (depressed melocactus, Melocactus depressus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Walter Fitch from William Jackson Hooker's Botanical Magazine, London, 1839.
EditorialTurk's head cactus, Melocactus intortus (Greater Turk's cap melon thistle, Melocactus communis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," London, 1831.