EditorialIndia: As dusk falls on a cool, grey evening in Mumbai, a man wrapped in a woolen shawl lights a beedi (bidi), a thin kind of cigarette consisting of a dried, rolled up tendu leaf (Diospyros melanoxylon) filled with tobacco
EditorialIndia: As dusk falls on a cool, grey evening in Mumbai, a man wrapped in a woolen shawl lights a beedi (bidi), a thin kind of cigarette consisting of a dried, rolled up tendu leaf (Diospyros melanoxylon) filled with tobacco
EditorialIndia: As dusk falls on a cool, grey evening in Mumbai, a man wrapped in a woolen shawl lights a beedi (bidi), a thin kind of cigarette consisting of a dried, rolled up tendu leaf (Diospyros melanoxylon) filled with tobacco
EditorialIndia: As dusk falls on a cool, grey evening in Mumbai, a man wrapped in a woolen shawl lights a beedi (bidi), a thin kind of cigarette consisting of a dried, rolled up tendu leaf (Diospyros melanoxylon) filled with tobacco
EditorialIndia: As dusk falls on a cool, grey evening in Mumbai, a man wrapped in a woolen shawl lights a beedi (bidi), a thin kind of cigarette consisting of a dried, rolled up tendu leaf (Diospyros melanoxylon) filled with tobacco
EditorialIndia: As dusk falls on a cool, grey evening in Mumbai, a man wrapped in a woolen shawl lights a beedi (bidi), a thin kind of cigarette consisting of a dried, rolled up tendu leaf (Diospyros melanoxylon) filled with tobacco
EditorialIndia: As dusk falls on a cool, grey evening in Mumbai, a man wrapped in a woolen shawl lights a beedi (bidi), a thin kind of cigarette consisting of a dried, rolled up tendu leaf (Diospyros melanoxylon) filled with tobacco
EditorialFlorida Jay - Persimontree Diospyros Virginiana, Florida Bush Jay (Garrulus floridanus, Aphelocoma coerulescens), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 233 (Bd. 4), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon...
EditorialFlorida Jay - Persimontree Diospyros Virginiana, Florida Bush Jay (Garrulus floridanus, Aphelocoma coerulescens), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 233 (Bd. 4), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon...
EditorialBladdernut or wild coffee, Diospyros whyteana (Shining royena, Royena lucida). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, London, Ridgeway, 1846.
EditorialJapanese persimmon variety, Costata, Diospyros kaki. Chromolithograph by Hoen after a botanical illustration by D.G. Passmore from the Report of the Pomologist, US Department of Agriculture, 1892.
EditorialMalabar ebony, tindooka, gab or gaub tree, Diospyros malabarica (Diospyros embryopteris). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialKakinohana or Japanese persimmon flower, Diospyros kaki. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889.