China

Ginseng Panax ginseng showing root and berries, illustrated for the global Crop Diversity Trust

Ginseng root Panax ginseng illustrated for the global Crop Diversity Trust

Butterfly bush Buddleja davidii sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

China Mark caterpillar Nymphula stagnata on lily leaf, with close up showing the damage from the caterpillar’s burrow

Tree of Heaven Ailanthus altissima sketchbook study page and habit sketch

Tree of Heaven Ailanthus altissima habit drawing showing mature tree in flower

Tree of Heaven Allanthus alitissima  comparing bark of mature tree (on left) with young tree (on right)

Tree of Heaven AIlanthus alitissima bark of old tree showing grey colour and deep fissures

Tree of Heaven AIlanthus alitissima bark of young tree showing heart shaped leaf scar

Weeping Willow Salix babylonica sprig of leaves showing elongate leaf shape

Weeping willow Salix babylonica tree with typical drooping branches and growth form

Walnut Juglans regia nut in shell and loose nut

Walnut Juglans regia tree showing typical growth habit

winter jasmine Jasminum nudiflorum sketchbook study

Plum Prunus domestica line drawing with detail of half fruit and plum blossom

Cricket diagram Gryllidae watercolour wash over pen and ink stippled illustration

Wood speedwell Veronica montana showing red stem

Wild Plum Prunus domestica fruit and blossom

Tobacco Nicotiana tabacum plant in flower showing limited caterpillar damage and Hornworm Manduca sexta on leaf, cut to white, and egg, pupa, and adult Carolina sphinx moth

Soybean Glycine max with pods and one flower

Proso millet Panicum miliaceum with two seed heads

Rice Oryza sativa plant

Damson fruit Prunus domestica individual lone fruit

Wetland landscape of a rice paddy with a farmer tending the rice plants in the flooded fields and with Cattle egret, White crane, palm trees, and women planting rice in the distance near a hut or shelter, mountains loom up behind the pastoral scene as the crane flies overhead