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

European lobster Homarus gammarus with eye detail showing curved lens Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books)

European lobster Homarus gammarus Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books)  

Blue mussels Mytilus edulis with byssal threads on wooden piling.  Illustration includes barnacles and limpets, and some bladder wrack seaweed.  Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books).

Medlar Mespilus germanica tree pen and ink with colour wash.  Illustration shows tree with fruit.

Medlar Mespilus germanica tree pen and ink.  Illustration shows tree in fruit

Wild Parsnip Pastinaca sativa sketchbook study.  Illustration shows comparison with the cultivated parsnip plant, Pastinaca sativa sativa.  It also includes details on the petiole, flower, umbel, seed head, seeds, and root.

Medlar Mepsilus germanica with edible fruit, and detail of one blossom

Silverberrry Autumn olive Oleaster Elaeagnus umbellata sketchbook study

Rowan Sorbus aucuparia sprig with berries and blossom

Strawberry tree Arbutus unedo sketchbook study with detail of fruit and half fruit

Sedum Ice plant Stonecrop Hylotelephium spectabile sketchbook study

Small Balsam Impatiens parviflora sketchbook study showing cross section of flower and details of seeds and exploded seed case.

Garden pea Pisum sativa showing leaves, tendrils, peas in a pod, flowers and closed pods

Elder spray of black berries and leaves

Elder tree showing typical growth habit and form

Branch with flowers and Baobab fruit

Ancient baobab tree showing its distinctive shape

Sea rocket Cakile maritima with detail of cross section through seed pod

Sea Kale Crambe maritima

Hottentot Fig Carpobrotus edulis showing the large pink flowers and pale succulent leaves

Giant knotweed Fallopia sachalinensis showing numerous drooping flowers, large leaves, stem section and detail of the orange underground rhizome

Few flowered leek Alium paradoxum showing flowers and fruit, with cross section of stem and one leaf.

Wood sorrel Oxalis acetosela pen and ink illustration