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Berberis asiatica R.

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Date

1795-1804

Artist

Unknown Artist (Company School)

Collection

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : The Roxburgh Collection

Acknowledgements

Digitised by TWW

Description

Watercolour illustration commissioned by William Roxburgh. ROX1962.
In his 'Flora Indica', Roxburgh describes this species as a shrub native of the mountainous regions north of Hindoosthan, where Captain Hardwicke found it, on his journey to Shreenagur. Roxburgh also reports that Dr Buchanan sent seed, from Nepal, to the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1802, where the plants flowered for the first time in April 1808. He then notes how this species resembles, in appearance, the common European 'Berbery' bush.
Roxburgh, 'Flora Indica' (1832) v.2, p.182.

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image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

Location

South Asia

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Flora
Flowers
Plants

Category

Glossary
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