Medicinal Plants Coloring Book

Forty-four accurate and ready-to-color drawings of foxglove, belladonna, mayapple, valerian, dandelion, chamomile, many other plants with curative properties. Captions give description, distribution, medicinal uses, more. Illustrations royalty-free.

For centuries plants have been used to assuage or cure a wide variety of human ills. Even such familiar \"weeds\" as the dandelion have their palliative uses. This informative colouring book, featuring 44 accurate drawings by botanical illustrator Ilil Arbel, focuses on such medicinal plants from around the world as foxglove, belladonna, mayapple, valerian, dandelion, chamomile, quinine, arnica, burdock, tamarind, lobelia, and many more.

Each illustration is accompanied by an informative caption outlining the plant's coloration and physical characteristics, geographic distribution, and medicinal uses. Invaluable as an identification guide and pictorial reference, this volume will appeal to colourists of all ages as well as to artists and crafters in need of royalty-free plant illustrations.

ISBN: 9780486274621
Author: ARBEL, ILIL
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03/03/1993
RRP: $14.99
Pages: 48
Dimension: 279mm X 209mm
Imprint: Dover Publications