Seed Collection

Purple rain
Silvia Spedicato

Cosmic microwave background. Spherical projection of the cosmic microwave background, using all-sky data from the WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe)

Spices used in Thai food, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Siskin & Tits on squirrel proof globe bird feeder
JD-18342 Siskin & Tits on squirrel proof globe bird feeder Carduelis spinus John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Medicinal and Herbal Plants, Victorian Botanical Illustration
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Victorian Botanical Illustration of Wildflowers, Medicinal and Herbal Plants: Plate 26

Quercus suber, cork oak
Plate 35 from `Le Regne Vegetal. Vol 16 1871. Originally called Chene liege in this publication the Cork Oak tree is now know by the name (Quercus suber)

Plants bearing fruits and seeds
Plants bearing berries and seeds including guava, membrillo, brazil nut, mistletoe, spotted laurel, cannonball tree, cactus, eucalyptus, myrtle, clove, caraway, coriander, hemlock, cumin, etc

Plant Anatomy, Victorian Botanical Illustration
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Victorian Botanical Illustration of Plant Anatomy: Plate 1

Dandelion seeds flying away

Elaeis guineensis Jacq. African oil palm
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree
Plate 41 from `Le Regne Vegetal. Vol 16 1871

Carl Linnaeuss Systema Naturae (1736)
Watercolour illustration by Georg Ehret, of Carl Linneauss sexual system for the classification of plants from Systema Naturae, published in 1736

Siskins and Redpolls (Carduelis flammea) at Niger bird seed feeder - New Forest - Hampshire - UK
ROG-13880 Siskins and Redpolls (Carduelis flammea)

Girl Guides Gardening by Millicent Sowerby
Two girl guides pictured in a garden in the spring raking the grass and planting seeds

Dandelion flowers and seed-heads ("clocks')
ROG-12281 Dandelion flowers and seed-heads ("clocks') Taraxacum officinale Bob Gibbons Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Conkers Close up Bedfordshire UK
BB-733 Horse Chestnut - Conkers Bedfordshire UK Brian Bevan Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Coffee beans. These roasted seeds of the coffee plant (Coffea sp.) contain the stimulant drug caffeine. Coffee beans are used to make a beverage that has been drunk for over 1000 years

Blue Tit - & Great Tit (Parus major) at bird table
JD-15113 Blue Tit - & Great Tit (Parus major) at bird table feeding on seed block

Goldfinches- Birds fighting at niger feeder Bedfordshire, UK
BB-780 Goldfinches- Birds fighting at niger feeder UK Carduelis carduelis Brian Bevan Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Maple tree - close-up of leaves & seeds
LA-1525 Sycamore - winged seeds and leaves Studio Jean Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

S Dixon & Co seed catalogue
The colourful front cover of thes Dixon & Co seed catalogue, offering choice seeds for the flower and kitchen garden

Green and red seeds of nutmeg and mace, Myristica fragrans Houtt.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

R G Fortt gardening catalogue
The colourful front cover of R G Fortts spring gardening catalogue

Sunflower seed head (Helianthus annuus). The spiral arrangement of the seeds describe a Fibonacci mathematical series, one in which each number is the sum of the two previous numbers

Goldfinch - feeding on thistle seeds, Lower Saxony, Germany
USH-4118 Goldfinch - feeding on thistle seeds Lower Saxony

Pomegranate: opened to show seeds within sweet jelly
PM-10248 Pomegranate: opened to show seeds within sweet jelly

Harvest Mouse eating wheat seed. UK
DOW-259 Harvest Mouse eating wheat seed. UK Micromys minutus Steve Downer Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Canary - in cage with seeds
LA-5320 Canary - in cage with seeds Jean-Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Red-headed Woodpecker - Eating seeds at a bird feeder
TOM-990 Red-headed Woodpecker - Eating seeds at a bird feeder Great Lakes Region, Ontario

Star Anise
PPG-1434 STAR ANISE - close-up of seeds China Illicium verum This spice is the source of Shikimic acid from which the drug Tamiflu is made

Holly – with frosted berries 003114
BB-1090-m-c Holly - with frosted berries Brian Bevan Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Dandelion Clock & Prayer
A dandelion clock is used as a metaphor for measuring your life by loss and not by gain

Whitneys Cotton Gin
WHITNEYs GIN Eli Whitneys gin of 1793 enabled separation of cotton fibre from its seeds to be done mechanically : this is a modified version in use

Date palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, Dattier. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Meadowsweet, 1893. Botanical illustration of Spiraea Ulmaria, or meadowsweet, from an atlas of the plants of France

Vintage seed packet: Cosmos
A beautiful Cosmos seed packet from the Burts Seeds Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

Illustration of seed hanging from mangrove tree rooted in muddy swamp

Dunlaps Flower Seeds

Caraway, Seed, Earthnut, Saxifrage, Rockfoil, Victorian Botanical Illustration
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Caraway, Seed, Earthnut, Saxifrage, Rockfoil, Victorian Botanical Illustration, from The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain

Charleston, South Carolina. USA Raw cotton
Raw cotton. Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Papaver (Poppy), two varieties
Two varieties of Papaver (Poppy) -- Papaver flore pleno rubrum (Double Red) and Papaver Eraticum rubrum (Wild Red), drawn by Basilius Besler (1561-1629)

Cacao (cocoa) beans freshly harvested and ready for making into chocolate, Belize, Central America

Sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) tree C016 / 3341
Sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) tree. Artwork of a sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) tree, with a close-up showing a chestnut on a branch (upper right)

Nyrustuca moschata, nutmeg
Illustration by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Sesamum indicum, sesame plant
Illustration from the Botany Library held at the Natural History Museum, London

Silybum marianum, milk thistle
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Chardon Marie

Banksia serrata, old man banksia
Finished watercolour by John Frederick Miller from an original outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) flowers and seed pods, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Sow the seeds of victory! Plant & raise your own vegetables. Poster showing Liberty sowing seeds. Date c1918. Sow the seeds of victory! Plant & raise your own vegetables

Fairies learn to dance before they learn to walk (Fairy Lore). 1920s

The Hay crop from Suttons Grass Seeds
A promotional postcard for Suttons Seeds, Reading - showing women harvesting the hay crop, grown from Suttons Grass seeds

Panspermia theory of life
Panspermia, conceptual image. Panspermia is the theory that the seeds of life on Earth, such as water and organic matter, arrived from outer space

Coco-de-mer / Maldive Coconut - Seed on ground
WAT-7567 Coco-de-mer / Maldive Coconut - Seed on ground Lodoicea maldivicia M. Watson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Screwbean Mesquite or Tornillo - corkscrew pods in autumn New Mexico, USA
ROG-12016 Screwbean Mesquite or Tornillo - corkscrew pods in autumn New Mexico, USA

Kiwi Fruit - cross section showing seeds
DOW-23 KIWI Fruit - cross section showing seeds Steve Downer Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Sesame, Sesamum indicum. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

White mustard, Sinapis alba. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Black cumin, Nigella sativa, and love-in-a-mist, Nigella damascena

Gingko, ginkgo or maidenhair tree, Ginkgo biloba. Endangered
Gingko, ginkgo or maidenhair tree, Ginkgo biloba, Gingko biloba, gingko. Endangered

Bearded reedling (Panurus biarmicus) female feeding on reed seeds covered in frost, Espoo, Finland, January

The Parable of the Sower and the Weeds, from Das Plenarium, 1517

The Sower, October 1888, (1947). Creator: Vincent van Gogh
The Sower, October 1888, (1947). Man broadcasting seed in a field against a sun low on the horizon. Painting in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

October - the Louvre, 15th century, (1939). Creators: Paul Limbourg, Jean Colombe
October - the Louvre, 15th century, (1939). Octobre - Le Louvre. Peasants sowing seed in a ploughed field: the man on the right is broadcasting by hand, as magpies eat the fallen grain

Fennel, 1782. Artist: Elizabeth Blackwell
Fennel, 1782. Plate 288 from A Curious Herbal by Elizabeth Blackwell, published in 1782

Willow, White Willow, Yellow Osier, Sallow, Victorian Botanical Illustration
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Willow, White Willow, Yellow Osier, Osier, Sallow, Victorian Botanical Illustration, from The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain

Isatis tinctoria (woad or glastum)
Antique illustration of Isatis tinctoria (woad or glastum)

Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris)
Illustration of a Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris)

Northern Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum pedatum)
Herbal, 18th-19th century. Iconographia Taurinensis. Volume XL, Plate 30 by Angela Rossi Bottione, Northern Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum pedatum), Polypodiaceae

Cumin, Cuminum cyminum
FLO4992890 Cumin, Cuminum cyminum

Seed pods
Nel Talen

The Parable of the Seed - Matthew 15. circa 1688

Olive Tree Branch with Fruits
illustration of a Olive Tree Branch with Fruits

Aesculus hippocastanum (horse-chestnut, conker tree)
Illustration of a Aesculus hippocastanum (horse-chestnut, conker tree)

Picture No. 11675582
Scanning Electron micrograph (SEM): Lily Pollen grains. Date:

N. A. USA, Kansas. A sunflower field
N.A. USA, Kansas. A sunflower field

European Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) two adults, feeding at hanging nyger seed feeder in garden, Essex, England, april

Greater Burdock seeds (Arctium lappa) in the autumn

Red kidney beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) seeds

Dandelion - seed head. France
WAT-12630 Dandelion - seed head. France Taraxacum officinale M. Watson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Horse Chestnut - single chestnut in spiky sheath
USH-1359 Horse CHESTNUT - Single chestnut in spiky sheath Aesculus hippocastanum Duncan Usher Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Dandelion seed-heads ("clocks')
ROG-12339 Dandelion seed-heads ("clocks') Taraxacum officinale Bob Gibbons Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Fossil Araucaria Cone, Mid Jurassic. Province Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina
FG-12029 FOSSIL- Araucaria Cone Province Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina. Araucaria mirabilis Mid Jurassic, H

Fossil Araucaria Cones, cross section & full cone
FG-11972 Fossil - Araucaria Cones, cross section & full cone Mid Jurassic, Province Santa Cruz, Argentina

Budgerigar - in cage with seeds
LA-5318 Budgerigar - in cage with seeds Melopsittacus undulatus Jean-Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

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"Exploring the Cosmic Origins: Seeds of Life and Beyond" Intriguingly, seeds hold within them the secrets of our cosmic origins. Just like the cosmic microwave background that permeates our universe they can a testament to the vastness and interconnectedness of life. Take for instance Elaeis guineensis Jacq. , commonly known as African oil palm. This seed not only sustains livelihoods but also symbolizes resilience in Southeast Asia's rich culinary tapestry. The spices derived from these seeds add an explosion of flavors to Thai food, tantalizing taste buds across Thailand. Delving into history, we find William Cutbush and Sons meticulously cataloging plant anatomy through Victorian botanical illustrations. Their detailed depictions capture the essence of Ginkgo biloba, also known as maidenhair tree – a living fossil with medicinal properties celebrated since ancient times. Victorian botanical illustrations further unveil nature's pharmacy by showcasing various medicinal and herbal plants. From dandelion seeds gracefully floating away on gentle breezes to Quercus suber or cork oak providing sustainable materials, each seed holds immense potential for both healing and innovation. It was Carl Linnaeus who classified these diverse wonders in his groundbreaking work "Systema Naturae. " His meticulous categorization paved the way for understanding how every seed contributes to Earth's biodiversity. Zooming closer to home, Siskin & Tits flutter around squirrel-proof globe bird feeders in Bedfordshire UK. These tiny creatures rely on seeds as their primary source of nourishment while delighting us with their vibrant presence amidst nature's beauty. Seeds truly encapsulate life's remarkable journey - from their celestial origins hinted at by cosmic microwave background radiation to their vital role in sustaining ecosystems worldwide. Let us cherish these humble yet extraordinary entities that have shaped our planet throughout time immemorial.