EditorialPhinaea albolineata (White-lined niphaea, Niphaea albo-lineata), with flower, stem, leaf, rhizome and roots. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's Botanical Magazine," Lon...
EditorialAloe vera 1, with flower and leaf, and asafoetida 2, Ferula assafoetida, with flower, leaf, root rhizome and seed. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Ber...
EditorialCardamom, Elettaria cardamomum (Malonia cardamonum), with flower, leaf, seedpod, and root rhizome. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842...
EditorialA container filled with slices of the fruity-tasting rhizome, known as mango ginger pickles, at the home of Usha Prabakaran in Chennai, India on Dec. 10, 2019. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
EditorialPhinaea albolineata (White-lined niphaea, Niphaea albo-lineata), with flower, stem, leaf, rhizome and roots. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's Botanical Magazine," Lon...
EditorialCardamom, Elettaria cardamomum (Malonia cardamonum), with flower, leaf, seedpod, and root rhizome. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842...
EditorialZedoary, Koempferia rotunda, with flower, leaf, stem and root rhizome. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckou...
EditorialGreater or Thai galangal, Alpinia galanga, showing flowers, berries, leaves and rhizome root. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Med...
EditorialContrayerva or carapia, Dorstenia brasiliensis, showing leaves, root rhizome and leaf outline. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Me...
EditorialAloe vera 1, with flower and leaf, and asafoetida 2, Ferula assafoetida, with flower, leaf, root rhizome and seed. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Ber...
EditorialTurmeric, Curcuma longa, showing flower, leaf, rhizome roots. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830....
EditorialGinger plant, Zingiber officinale, showing flower, leaf, and rhizome root. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Dubois from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, ...