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Hellebore black death affecting both the white flowers are the leaves, pen and ink with watercolour wash

Grass flowering head or rachilla in ink

Fungus with hyphae diagram to show caomparative size of a fruting fungus to the enormous network of hyphae and mycelium growing below the ground

Germinating seed from a grain through six stages to show how the cotelydon leaves emerge and the roots grow

Grass culm diagram in pencil showing knee where the grass bends in growth

Grass flowering head diagram in pencil

Flower parts anatomy cross section showing stamens and gynoecium

Parts of a flower diagram from the side and above, showing sepals, petals, stamen, and pistil

Vascular vs non vasular plants diagram including information on the cross section of a flower and a detail of a moss sporophyte and gametophyte and cross sections on a cellular level of a moss and a harebell stem

Schematic of a flower in colour showing petals, calyx, stamen and pistil

Cocoa and Melon fruits, both peeled to reveal seeds within

Alternate leaves diagram showing a sprig of ash and a less closely packed example

Dichasial cyme diagram showing the pattern of this flowering form

Disc floret diagram with seed attached and stamens and pistil on show

Butress root emerging from the forest floow with liana and shading

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

Common Alder Alnus glutinosa tree, pen and ink study of a tree in full leaf

Diagram of a bract with little flower growing from behind the bract

Bulbil diagram showing how it emerges at the junction of the stem and leaf

Drawing of a broom plant with colour details of individual flowers, leaves, and a seed pod

Illustration of the Columbine Aquilegia vulgaris examing different anatomy and colour forms of the flowers along with the seed pods and soft green lobed leaves

Sketchbook study of the Cornflower Centaura cyanus showing its rich blue colour and details of individual florets as well as of the thin leaves and flowering head, some details in colour and some in tonal pencil

Cow parsley illustration in pencil with details of stem, leaves and flowering head picked out in watercolour, and with a small view of the plant grwing at a distance, close up study of the individual flower and its anatomy

Sketchbook study of the Exploding cucumber Cylantha explodens with lots of details of the fruit exploding and curling back on itself, and details of the knobbly brown seeds along with a detailed colour study of a few fruit with dark green leaves behind. Lots of details of the curling tendrils and some simple watercolour wash […]