EditorialBitter apple, bitter cucumber or colocynth, Citrullus colocynthis (Cucumis colocynthis). Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Bur...
EditorialBitter cucumber or colocynth, Citrullus colocynthis (Cucumis colocynthis). Handcoloured lithograph by Henry Sowerby from Edward Hamilton's Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852.
EditorialColocynthis turbinata, Illustration of a 16th century pumpkin, Fig. 57, p. 115v, 1561, Valerius Cordus, Konrad Gessner, Benedictus Aretius, Pedanius Dioscorides: In hoc volumine continentur Valerii Cordi Simesusii annotationes in Pedacii Dioscoridis An...
EditorialColocynthis, Coloquinth, fol. 438r, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialColocynth or bitter apple, Citrullus colocynthis (Cucumis colocynthus). Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
EditorialColocynth or bitter apple, Citrullus colocynthis (Cucumis colocynthus). Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
EditorialColocynth or bitter apple, Citrullus colocynthis. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialColocynth or bitter apple, Citrullus colocynthis. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialVanilla orchid, Epidendrum vanilla 1, and colocynth or bitter apple, Citrullus colocynthis 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.
EditorialBitter apple, bitter cucumber or colocynth, Citrullus colocynthis (Cucumis colocynthis). Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Bur...
EditorialBitter apple, Citrullus colocynthis, showing flowers, branch, leaves, tendrils, ripe fruit, section, and seeds. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Dubois from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La...