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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

Common or Black Knapweed Centaura nigra, showing diverse leaf shape and typical spherical, purple flowering heads.

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

White Admiral butterfly Limenitis camilla with outstretched wings.  This butterfly is a velvety brown with distinctive white markings, crossed with deep brown-black veins.

Breast feather of Cockerel, showing orange colour and area of green glittering iridescence.

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.