The first botanical illustration book traces back to Greek botanist, Pedanius Dioscorides, who published a book called De Materia Medica. But later, in the 18th century, ...

Into the fantastical world of plants: Botanical illustrator Nirupa Rao’s new book is a journey into the Western ghats to unravel some of its rich, diverse plants. June 21, 2025 e-Paper.

Amy Pool was perusing a book on the history of botanical illustration when a citation for an 18th-century title caught her eye. A plant taxonomist at the Missouri Botanical Garden, Pool searched ...

Smithsonian botanical illustrator, Alice Tangerini, has spent over 50 years turning plants from the museum’s botany collection into artistic compositions, each of which can take up to two weeks ...

And making botanical illustrations for a patron is alive and well, she points out. Florilegia — documentation of all the plants growing in a specific garden — is a big thing right now, she says.

A Curious Herbal: Elizabeth Blackwell’s Pioneering Masterpiece of Botanical Art, published this year by Abbeville Press, is the first modern edition of the pivotal work. The book reproduces ...

Botanical print collector and gardener Ruthie Frierson, a friend of the late botanical illustrator Margaret Stones, displays correspondence the two woman shared through the years at her home in ...

In 1951, the illustrations for the ‘Manual of the Weeds of Major Crops of Ceylon’ were selected from the plates from the Herbarium collection by A. George de Alwis. In 1956, S.D.J.E. Senaratne, author ...