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Watts, May Theilgaard

Trees with Staminate Flowers, Only, in Catkins

3.24610
Black India ink on 4-ply white board. 
Digitized
Original
35.4 cm W x 53.4 cm H (Item)
29 cm W x 46 cm H (Platemark or image size)
1 sheet
Drawing
1944
Illustrations depicting pistillate and staminate flowers, staminate catkins, fruits, and associated outline of four trees, created to accompany "The Flowers Nobody Knows" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Descriptive text identifies coloring, anatomy, and bloom time. 

Header: Trees with Staminate Flowers, Only, in Catkins

(depicted from left to right, top to bottom)
  • Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
  • Shagbark hickory  -- Carya ovata
  • White oak -- Quercus alba
  • Ginkgo -- Ginkgo biloba
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, vol.19, no.3, March 1944, p.12.
Catkin-bearing plants
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Juglans nigra L. (black walnut)
Ginkgo biloba L. (ginkgo)
Carya ovata (Mill.) K. Koch (shagbark hickory)
Quercus alba L. (white oak)
Artwork
English
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