The Preservation Foundation has compiled an extraordinary collection of botanical art specifically dedicated to Florida's native plants.
Kim Frisbie Special to the Daily News Botanical subjects have long inspired artists, with illustrations of plants dating back to 1465 BC in ancient Egypt. Specific plants used for medicinal purposes were compiled into "herbals" as early as 512 AD. John Gerard’s 1,484-page illustrated Herbal, or Generall Historie of Plantes, was first published in 1597 and was standard medicinal plant reference for more than a century. In 1613, Basilius Besler, a noted apothecary and botanist in Nuremburg, Germany, published the incomparable Florilegium: Hortus Eystettensis, compiling 373 full-color pla...
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