Description | Botanical study of Dasiphora fruticosa, common name shrubby cinquefoil. Described by John Ray in 'Catalogus plantarum Angliae' (1677). This painting is reproduced, in mirror image, in the Society of Gardeners' book 'Catalogus Plantarum' (1730) (plate 14, central figure).
Yellow flowering plant, showing flowers open and in bud, with green leaves. Inscribed in ink 'Pentaphylliodes fruticosum, Raij. Cat. Ang:'. Not signed. |