EditorialKantouka, fuki or bog rhubarb, Petasites japonicus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialCommon butterbur, Petasites hybridus, and tall butterbur, Petasites elatior. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Several Hundred Additional Plants...
EditorialPetasites, Illustration of a 16th century Pestwurze, Fig. 70, p. 123r, 1561, Valerius Cordus, Konrad Gessner, Benedictus Aretius, Pedanius Dioscorides: In hoc volumine continentur Valerii Cordi Simesusii annotationes in Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de...
EditorialPetasites. Hortus Eystettensis, sive diligens et accurata omn. George Mack, Nuremberg, 1613. Petasites and Aconitum. Image taken from Hortus Eystettensis, sive diligens et accurata omnium plantarum, florum, stirpium, ex variis orbis terr' partibus, si...
EditorialKantouka, fuki or bog rhubarb, Petasites japonicus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialCommon butterbur, Petasites hybridus, and tall butterbur, Petasites elatior. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Several Hundred Additional Plants...
EditorialBitter-bur, Tussilago petasites. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Icones plantarum medicinalium," Germany, 1796. Zorn (1739-99) was a German pharmacist and botanist who travelled all over Europe searching for medicinal plants.