Accession No

4758

Brief Description

botanical wall chart showing chromoplasts in the flowers or fruit of seven species, by J. Ethridge, English, 1885-1967

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Ethridge, J.

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1885

Latest Date

1967

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 1536mm; height 1016mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Inscription

‘CHROMOPLASTS (AFTER A.F.W.SCHIMPER, BOT.ZTG. 1883 AND JB.WISS. BOT.XVI, 1885)’ (top)

Description Notes

Diagrams showing the form of chromoplasts in different species, in the appropriate colours (yellow, green, pink, orange).
Top row, left to right: ‘TROPAELUM ADUNCUM (FLOWER)’; NEOTTIA NIDUS_AVIS’ (stem and flower); ‘ROSA ARVENSIS’ (from green to ripe in the fruit).
Bottom row, left to right: ‘MAXILLARIA TRIANGULARIS (FLOWER)’; ‘TULIPA GESNERIANA (FLOWER)’; ‘DAUCUS CAROTA (ROOT)’; ‘BRYONIA DIOICA (FRUIT)’.

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