EditorialPrivet species, Ligustrum vulgare. 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 illustrations only, with captions in Latin,...
EditorialLigustrum and Guiacana. Hortus Eystettensis, sive diligens et accurata omn. George Mack, Nuremberg, 1613. Ligustrum (Privet) and Guiacana. Image taken from Hortus Eystettensis, sive diligens et accurata omnium plantarum, florum, stirpium, ex variis or...
EditorialPrivet species, Ligustrum vulgare. 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 illustrations only, with captions in Latin,...
EditorialConvolvulus hawkmoth, Agrius convolvuli and privet hawkmoth, Sphinx ligustri. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Natu...
EditorialConvolvulus hawk-moth, Agrius convolvuli, and privet hawk-moth, Sphinx lugustri, with moth, larva and pupa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1...
EditorialBlack ironwood, Olea capensis (Nepal privet glabrous var., Ligustrum nepalense glabrum). Native to Africa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," London, 1829.
EditorialPrivet hawkmoth, Sphinx ligustri, and small tortoiseshell butterfly, Aglais urticae. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Moses Harris from "The Aurelian; a Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies," new edition edited by J. O. West...
EditorialWild privet, Ligustrum vulgare. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin Unive...
EditorialPrivet-leaved pimelea or tall rice flower, Pimelea ligustrina. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' "The Botanical Register," London, Ridgway, 1836. Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857) drew ...
EditorialPrivet hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri (Privet sphinx), with caterpillar and pupa. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, ...
EditorialJapanese privet, Ligustrum japonicum, native to southern Japan. Handcoloured stipple engraving on copper by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's "Herbier General de l'Amateur," Audot, Paris, 1820. The Herbier...