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  • Microvasculature of the African Grey Parrot
  • Bergenia 'Bressingham Ruby'
  • Drosophila leg, tarsus, SEM
  • Charcot Leyden crystals from an endobronchial lesion
  • Thermogram of normal hand
  • Zebrafish mechanosensory neuron
  • Mitchell's equation I
  • Rosa gallica L. Rosaceae Distribution: S & C Europe, Western Asia. Culpeper: “Red roses cool, bind, strengthen both vital and animal virtue, restores such as are in consumptions, strengthen. Notes: Rose water and distilled oil of roses have been used in herbal medicine for over a thousand years, and are still used in aromatherapy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Future element
  • Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM
  • Future element
  • Banded iron formations (BIFs) contain well developed iron-rich thin alternating layers or laminations as seen here. This formation occurs due to the lack of burrowing species in the Precambrian period in which this sedimentary rock was created. The name comes from the various coloured layers.
  • Brugmansia suaveolens 'Pink Beauty'
  • Rosa rugosa 'Fru Dagmar Hastrup'
  • Microvasculature of pigeon head
  • Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench Asteraceae. Coneflower. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) records that the roots were chewed, or used as a tincture for coughs by the Choctaw. It was combined with Rhus typhina to treat venereal disease by the Delaware. Very little record of this being used by Native Americans, who used E. angustifolia very widely - Regarded as a panacea and magical herb. This and E. pallida were used to treat snakebite, spider bite, cancer, toothache, burns, sores, wounds, flu and colds. E. purpurea in modern times has been used as an ‘immunostimulant’, but is known to cause a fall in white cell count, and to be purely a placebo. Licensed for use as a Traditional Herbal Medicine, which does not require proof of efficacy, in the UK. Licensed as a Traditional Herbal Remedy in the UK (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Transverse section of brain and eyes, Zebrafish model
  • Heuchera 'Silver Scrolls'
  • Chrysalis, paintings exploring women in science
  • Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM
  • Hesperantha coccinea syn. Schizostylis coccinea
  • Eucomis comosa 'Sparkling Burgundy'
  • Glutamatergic neurons in telencephalon, zebrafish
  • Albizia julibrissin Durazz. Fabaceae. Persian silk tree. Called 'shabkhosb' in Persian, meaning 'sleeping tree' as the pinnate leaves close up at night. Tropical tree. Named for Filippo degli Albizzi, an Italian naturalist, who brought seeds from Constantinople to Florence in 1749, and introduced it to European horticulture. The specific epithet comes from the Persian 'gul-i abrisham' which means 'silk flower'. Distribution: South Africa to Ethiopia, Senegal, Madagascar, Asia. Bark is poisonous and emetic and antihelminthic. Various preparations are widely used for numerous conditions and the oxitocic albitocin is abortifacient. However, studies on the seeds and bark of other Albizia species in Africa, demonstrate it is highly toxic, half a kilogram of seeds given to a quarter ton bull, killed it in two hours (Neuwinger, 1996). A useful tree for controlling soil erosion, producing shade in coffee plantations, and as a decorative shade tree in gardens. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ovum
  • Rosa 'Charles de Mills'
  • Cat tongue, cross section
  • Origin of life
  • Polygala myrtifolia 'Grandiflora'
  • Bacterial microbiome mapping, bioartistic experiment