Botanical illustration

Somerset redstreak apple Malus domestica with apple blossom, leaves, and two ripe apples

Scaly male fern Dryopteris affinis plant, individual frond, and spore detail

Ragged robin Lychnis flos cuculi with flowers, buds and leaves

Red currant Ribes rubrum showing the shiny red currants and birght green leaves and flowers

Potato Solanum tuberosum in flower with badly damaged leaves with Colorado beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata on the leaf and also cut to white beetle. Egg, larva, and pupa

Hooked Scorpion moss Scorpidium scorpioides tuft with detail of one fascicle and of a leaf

Red bog moss Sphagnum capillifolium tuft, shoot, clump pf shoots, fasicle, stem leaf and branch leaf

Morning glory Ipomoea purpurea flowers twining and growing up a bamboo cane pyramid

Common haircap moss Polytrichum commune tuft of moss with detail of wet and dry moss fascicle, individual leaf, immatire capsule with calyptra and a wet mature spore capsule held horizontally

Marsh Thistle Cirsium palustre with basal rosette of leaves and erect stem with tight cluster of thistle flowers

Meadow cranesbill Geranium pratense with bud, seed pods and one beautiful purple blue flower

Jacobs ladder Polemonium caeruleum with leaves and bright blue flowers

Iris in gravel with blue petals

Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum in flower, flushed pink, with detail of the shiny red berries

Ivy Hedera helix sprig and black berries

Hazel Corylus avellana sprig with immature and mature hazel nuts, along with a sprig with small female flowers and catkins

Heath rush Juncus squarrosus with detail of fruit and on cross section of a leaf

Hedge bindweed Calystegia sepium with binding stems and showing species specific calyx and several large flowers along with the leaves

Great fen sedge Cladium mariscum plant, fruit, flowers, rhizome and roots, and details of the spikelet, stem, fruit and detail of the folded leaf

Greater reedmace Typha latifolia flowering head in pencil, also sometimes know (wrongly) as bull rush

Greater willowherb Epibolium hirsutum with flowers and seed pods and shoot emerging at the stem base

Russula growing in pine needles

Gentian gentiana acaulis individual flower and basal rosette of leaves

African daisy Gerbera close up of an orange flower