A selection of great botanical illustrations

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This is a kale. Not from a vintage book, but beautiful. Author: Joelle Sept.

http://joellesept.blogspot.com/2011/10/botanical-illustration-kale.html

Three Sunflowers by Nannette Nielsen, March 2011. 

http://botanicalillustration.blogspot.com/2011/03/congratulations-for-three-new-botanical.html

Grass, botanical illustration with color note, for Jack Rabbit Group, Hall of North American Mammals

http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/items/show/8261