Bog Labrador tea (Rhododendron groenlandicum) illustration

Black and white line drawing showing a flowering shrub with tiny flowers growing in hemispherical clusters with long and broad leaves that curl under at the edges that can be used as a tea substitute.

In Collection:

• Oluna Ceska and Adolf Ceska Collection

Creator

• Ceska, Oldriska

Subject

• Shrubs
• Art
• Wild plants, Edible
• Botany
• Plants, Edible
• Tea substitutes
• Botanical illustration
• Plants
• Biology

Language

• eng

Keyword

• Hudson's Bay tea
• Ledum palustre var. latifolium
• Muskeg tea
• Ledum latifolium
• Ledum groenlandicum
• Ledum palustre ssp. groenlandicum
• Swamp tea

Date created

• 1979? to 2021?

Relation

• Illustration used in Nancy J. Turner and Adam F. Szczawinski's "Wild coffee and tea substitutes of Canada" (Ottawa: National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada, 1978;  https://search.library.uvic.ca/permalink/01VIC_INST/8gqp8f/alma992457783807291 ; Call Number: QK98.5 C3T89)

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 leaf ; 28 x 19.5 cm

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia

Coordinates

• 53.99983, -125.0032

Additional physical characteristics

• Signed "O.C.". Pencil handwriting on verso: "Turner + Szcsawinski: Wild coffee + tea substitutes Ledum palustre ssp. groenlandicum"

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Oluna and Adolf Ceska Collection

Provenance

• Gift of Adolf Ceska, February 2023.

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• drawings (visual works)
• watercolors (paintings)
• botanical illustrations
• scientific illustrations (images)

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2023-006 and 2023-024 - Botanical Illustrations, 1979-2021; File: 2.2 - Botnical Illustrations

Fonds title

• Oluna Ceska and Adolf Ceska fonds

Fonds identifier

• SC677

Is referenced by

• Special Collections finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/oluna-ceska-and-adolf-ceska-fonds

Date digitized

• August 2023

Technical note

• Scanned on Betterlight/TTI (600 dpi;1/20;283;copy4; camera 1000), for art (600 dpi;1/20;263;copy4; camera 1000) by PD/LG. Metadata by KD.

Rights

• Use of this material is permitted for research and private study purposes only. For all other uses, contact University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/dmh0-ve40

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