Dendrophilia

stilllifequickheart:

Charlotte Thodey

Green Cabbage, Red Cabbage and Beetroot

2011

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hyperboria:

Maria Sibylla Merian

Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium

1705

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05/31/12

oldbookillustrations:

Indian peacock (Pavo cristatus)

From Bilder-atlas zur Wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Vögel ( Atlas, or Volume of plates to Scientific and popular natural history of birds), by Leopold Joseph Fitzinger, Vienna, 1864.

(Source: archive.org)

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05/30/12

stilllifequickheart:

Teisai Hokuba

Dried Cuttle-Fish and Plum Blossoms

Early 19th century

05/30/12

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05/30/12

micro-scopic:

Mr. Josef Spacek
Charles University Hospital, Fingerland Department of Pathology
Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
Specimen: Vessel architectonics of leaf of lime
Technique: Confocal

05/30/12

dendroica:

Seed pods by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Nova genera et species plantarum.
Monachii [Munich] :Impensis Auctoris,1824-1829 [i.e. 1824-32]..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/741946

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05/29/12