decorative

Showing yellow and cream colouration and sprawling, tufted habit  

West Indian stinging nettle or Zouti laportea aestuans in flower

Trumpet bush Cecropia peltata showing a section of a much larger tree

Pung coolie or Bitter melon Momordica charantia showing fruit split to reveal red seeds

Prickly pear Opuntia ficus-indica showing plant in flower and fruit

Milk thistle Silybum marianum with detail of seed and one flower

Madagascar periwinkle Catharanthus roseus showing full plant in flower

Leaf of life Bryophyylum pinnatum or Kalanchoe pinnata botanical illustration

Klip dagga Leonotis nepetifolia watercolour with detail of flower

Juk juk or Culantro Eryngium foetidum with detail of flowering head

Gumbo-limbo or copperwood Bursera simaruba with detail of flowers and peeling bark

Davis root or David’s milkberry Chiocacca alba showing detail on one flower and plant in bloom and fruit

Cattle tongue or Cough bush Pluchea carolinensis watercolour

Bush tea or Quickstick Gliricidia sepium showing plant and a detail of one flower

Blue vervain or Blue porterweed Stachytarpheta jamaicensis watercolour illustration with detail of individual flower

Aloe vera plant showing leaves and flowering spike

Alexanders Smyrnium olusatrum with Puccinia smyrnii rust on some leaves, and detail of one flower and one seed.

Bracken Pteridium aquilinum showing leaf fronds, roots, and inrolled leaf margins with sori

Lilac Syringa vulgaris tree pen and ink.  Illustration shows the tree in full bloom.

Lilac Syringa vulgaris tree pen and ink.  Illustration shows the tree in full bloom.

Lilac Syringa vulgaris flowering spike with leaves

Yellow horned-poppy Galucium flavum with seed pod

Thrift Armeria maritima with individual flower detail

Spring squill Scilla verna botanical illustration by Lizzie Harper showing large bulb