As a botanical illustrator, I don't simply copy how a plant looks but must explain plants through my drawing. Botanical illustrations must reveal a plant's morphological structure such as the arrangement of reproductive parts, leaves, and stems with a three dimensional quality..
What is botanical artwork?
Image Policy / Gallery Guidelines of the American Society of Botanical Artists. Botanical art is art whose goal is to depict whole plants or parts of plants in a manner that is both aesthetically pleasing and scientifically accurate..
What is the purpose of botanical illustrations?
“The aesthetic beauty of botanical illustration has fascinated and inspired people for centuries but beyond its visual appeal, botanical drawings help identify and understand plants in a timeless manner. Its original purpose was to aid in plant identification for medicinal and culinary uses.Jun 28, 2019.
Botany images
A gemma is a single cell, or a mass of cells, or a modified bud of tissue, that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual. This type of asexual reproduction is referred to as fragmentation. It is a means of asexual propagation in plants. These structures are commonly found in fungi, algae, liverworts and mosses, but also in some flowering plants such as pygmy sundews and some species of butterworts. Vascular plants have many other methods of asexual reproduction including bulbils and turions.
Horticultural botany is the study of the botany of current and potential cultivated plants, with emphasis on the ornamental plants of horticulture, by a horticultural botanist or plantsman—plantsperson.
Mast is the fruit of forest trees and shrubs
Fruit of forest trees like acorns and other nuts
Mast is the fruit of forest trees and shrubs, such as acorns and other nuts. The term derives from the Old English mæst, meaning the nuts of forest trees that have accumulated on the ground, especially those used historically for fattening domestic pigs, and as food resources for wildlife. In the aseasonal tropics of Southeast Asia, entire forests, including hundreds of species of trees and shrubs, are known to mast at irregular periods of 2–12 years.
In botany
Botany term for a circular arrangement of leaves
In botany, a rosette is a circular arrangement of leaves or of structures resembling leaves.
