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Nature 409, 454-455 (25 January 2001) | doi:10.1038/35054117

Open Innovation Challenges

Floral tributes for a treasure reclaimed

Ryan J. Huxtable1

Botanical illustration has a long history. The painted garden, or hortus pictus, was supremely important for the thousands of years when nearly all medicinal drugs were derived from plants, and there was no effective technology for preserving herbarium specimens from decay, attack by insects or other destructive agents.