EditorialAlocasia devansayana (Colocasia devansayana). Chromolithograph by Francois Stroobant from Jean Linden's l'Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1885.
EditorialTaro, Colocasia esculenta, and dragon tree, Astragalus tragacantha. 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 illustrati...
EditorialNut-tree tussock, Colocasia coryli, and plumed prominent, Ptilophora plumigera. Phalaena coryli, Phalaena plumigera. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der...
EditorialColocasia, Egyptian beans, Egyptian Bonen, Fol. 121v, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialOrtygometra tabuensis, Print, The Kosrae crake or Kusaie Island crake (Porzana monasa), sometimes also stated as Kittlitz's rail, is an extinct bird from the family Rallidae. It occurred on the island of Kosrae and perhaps on Ponape in the south-wester...
EditorialTaro, Colocasia esculenta, and dragon tree, Astragalus tragacantha. 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 illustrati...
EditorialAlocasia devansayana (Colocasia devansayana). Chromolithograph by Francois Stroobant from Jean Linden's l'Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1885.
EditorialTaro, Colocasia esculenta, and dragon tree, Astragalus tragacantha. 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 illustrati...
EditorialAlocasia devansayana (Colocasia devansayana). Chromolithograph by Francois Stroobant from Jean Linden's l'Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1885.
EditorialElephant ear, Colocasia affinis (Alocasia jenningsii). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1867-1868.
EditorialSatoimo or taro leaves and stalk, Colocasia esculenta. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900.
EditorialSatoimo or taro flower, Colocasia esculenta. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900.