EditorialGinger or ginger root, Zingiber officinale, Amomum zingiber, Gingembre. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Flor...
EditorialGinger or ginger root, Zingiber officinale, Amomum zingiber, Gingembre. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Flor...
EditorialCardamom of the Malabar Coast, Green Cardamom of the Malabar Coast (Amomum repens = Elettaria cardamomum), Signed: P. Sonnerat pinx, Milsan sculp, Pl. 136, after p. 240 (Vol. 2), Sonnerat, Pierre M. (pinx.); Milsan (sculp.), 1782, Sonnerat, Pierre;.
EditorialGinger lily, Alpinia vitellina (Orange-yellow amomum, Amomum vitellinum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, London, Ridgeway, 1847.
EditorialGrains of paradise, Melegueta pepper, alligator pepper, Aframomum melegueta (Amomum melegueta). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.