edible seeds

Garden lupin Lupinus regalis habit showing a red and yellow variety

Blue bonnet Lupin Lupinus polyphyllus sketchbook study page.  Includes information on  habit, cross section of flower, seed pods, and leaf venation.

Lupin Lupinus polyphyllus habit drawing showing palmate leaves and flower spikes

Persian Hogweed Heracleum persicum sketchbook study showing rounded curve of flowering head, and convex toothed leaf lobes.

Himalayan balsam Impatiens glandulifera with details of flower, seed and seed pods, stem, roots, and growth habit.

Sunflower Helianthus annuus close up of one flwoer

Cocoa and Melon fruits, both peeled to reveal seeds within

Cocoa seeds in a pod Theobroma cacao with the pod skin torn away to show the seeds stacked within

Himalayan balsam Impatiens glandulifera study page with colour details of the red flushed stem, orchid like purple flowers, details of different colour forms, close up of the seed pod, wash on one green leaf, graphite or pencil tonal studies of another leaf, and details of the little red growths below where a leaf adheres to […]