flora

Klip dagga Leonotis nepetifolia with detail of individual flower

Juk juk or Culantro Eryngium foetidum with detail of flowering head

Juk juk or Culantro Eryngium foetidum pen and ink line drawing

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

Gumbo-limbo or copperwood Bursera simaruba line drawing

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

Davis root or David’s milkberry Chiocacca alba pen and ink line drawing

Cattle tongue or Cough bush Pluchea carolinensis watercolour

Cattle tongue or Cough bush Pluchea carolinensis pen and ink line drawing

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

Bush tea or Quickstick Gliricidia sepium line drawing

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

Blue vervain or Blue porterweed Stachytarpheta jamaicensis pen and ink line illustration

Aloe vera plant showing leaves and flowering spike

Aloe vera pen and ink line drawing showing the plant in flower  

Honeysuckle berries Lonicera pericylmenum with leaves and showing these bright, shiny berries.

British earthstar Geastrum britannicum showing the rare fungus at different stages in it’s life cycle

Holly Parachute fungus Marasmius hudsonii.  Illustration shows this tiny delicate fungus growing on dead and damp Holly leaves.

Peony flower Paeonia lactiflora, shown just coming into bloom.

Magnolia flower Magnolia grandiflora, single flower.

Lily of the Valley flower Convallaria majalis.  Single bloom from a drooping flowering spike

Carnation flower Dianthus caryophyllus, white tinged with pink.

Foxglove flower Digitaria purpurea.  Single flower shown face on.

Lilac flower Syringa vulgaris.  Close up of one flower from a larger flowering spike.