New Zealand Flowers in Colour

Assorted Collections

Below is a gallery collating paintings by Emily Cumming Harris from across multiple collections in the Alexander Turnbull Library, both singles not assigned a collection and volumes 2, 3, and 4 of the ‘New Zealand flowers in colour’ collections. This does not include New Zealand Mountain Flora or Alexander Turnbull Library’s copies of New Zealand Flowers, Berries, and Ferns.

Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: Earina autumnalis; N.Z. orchid / E C Harris [189-?]. Ref: C-024-014. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23144355

Shows Leontipodium or edelweiss (bottom right); rubus spp. (bramble or bush lawyer, bottom right with berries); gentian (to left of rubus); celmisia (daisy on far left); ranunculus hirtus or buttercup (lower group, left foreground); gaultheria or snowberry (central group, far right, with berries); hebe or whipcord (central group, right, above snowberry). The remaining plants in the central group have not been identified. — Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: [Herbs from] Mt Egmont. [1895?]. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 2. Ref: C-023-007. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22914868

A clump of celmisia or mountain daisy growing with a single flower — Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: Celmisia hieracifolia (?Mt Egmont). [1890s?]. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 2. Ref: C-023-004. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23156178

A branch of the New Zealand shrub Rangiora (brachyglottis repanda) in flower, showing the leaves with their white backs, against a grey-green background — Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925: Rangiora. Brachyglottis rangiora. 1887. Ref: C-024-007. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23131009

An arrangement of New Zealand flowering plants against a background of a river valley and hills. The plants include metrosideros, clematis, wahlenbergia, gaultheria and ranunculus. — Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925:[Pohutukawa, clematis, bluebell, snowberry and ranunculus. 1890s?]. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 2. Ref: C-023-014. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22906947

Several different groups of flowering plants growing, three of them named. The notothlaspi species is also known as the penwiper plant — Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: Ranunculus. Myosotis australis (yellow forget-me-not). Notothlaspi australe. [1890s?]. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 2. Ref: C-023-008. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22298081

Shows yellow New Zealand ranunculus insignis, mountain buttercup or korikori. — Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925: [Ranunculus insignis. 1890s?]. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 2. Ref: C-023-016. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23150611

Shows stilbocarpa lyallii, or five finger jack in flower. — Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925: Aralia lyallii (The Snares). [1890s?]. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 2. Ref: C-023-003. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22917048

A clump of small white flowers against a brown background — Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: Wahlenbergia gracilis. [1890s?]. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 3 [1890s]. Ref: B-018-017. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22839813

Shows cottongrass (pekepeke), native parsley, turutu (blueberry, libertia), pimelia, portulaca and daisy. — Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925: Celmisia longifolia, lingusticum aromaticum, libertia ixioides, pimelea suteri, claytonia australasica [1890s?]. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 2. Ref: C-023-001. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22709556

A branch of the red-flowering New Zealand shrub Rewa rewa (Knightia excelsa) in flower, showing the leaves and with a separate branchlet showing the seed-pods. On brown paper — Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925: Knightia excelsa (Rewarewa). [ca 1890]. Ref: C-024-008. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22809966

Two types of celmisia or mountain daisy growing — Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: Celmisia chapmanii (Campbell Island). Celmisia vernicosa – Campbell Island. [1890s?]. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 2. Ref: C-023-018. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23061612

The leaf and flower of the Chatham Island forgetmenot — Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925: Mysosotidium nobile (Chatham Island lily – giant forget-me-not [myosotidium hortensia. 1890s?]. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 3 [1890s]. Ref: B-018-012. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22893105

Flower, fruit and leaves of Kiekie — Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: Freycinetia banksii (Kiekie). Flower showing fruit- Tawhara (Taranaki). [1880s or 1890s?]. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 3 [1890s]. Ref: B-018-008. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22758548

Shows three pterostylis banksii (tutukiwi or hooded orchids) and towards the upper left, one microtis unifolia or onion-leafed orchid. — Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925: [Pterostylus banksii and microtis unifolia. 1860s?]. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Vol 4. Ref: A-062-002. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22812770

Shows a purple-centred daisy with broad leaves — Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925: Pleurophyllum speciosum (Adams Isld). [1890s]. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 2. Ref: C-023-005. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22338906

The broad-leafed forest cabbage tree in flower, shown in close-up detail. — Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925: Cordyline Banksii. [1880s or 1890s]. Ref: C-024-009. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22788508

The New Zealand shrub astelia in flower — Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925: Astelia cunninghamii. (Kowharowharo). [Between 1880 and 1900?]. Ref: C-024-006. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22342703

A branchlet of pohutukawa in leaf, bud and flower — Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925: Metrosideros tomentosa (pohutukawa). [1890s?]. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 3 [1890s]. Ref: B-018-010. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22373171

A branch showing leaves and flowers of kowhai — Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925: Sophora tetraptera (kowhai). A small tree growing in North and South Islands. It is thickly covered in early spring with golden yellow flowers. The wood is exceedingly hard. [1899?]. Ref: PUBL-0024-1-05. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22876706

The New Zealand blueberry, turutu, in berry and leaf — Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925: Dianella intermedia. Blue berry. [1890s?]. Ref: C-024-011. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22860743

Flower, fruit and leaves of taupata. — Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: Coprosma baueri (taupata). [189-?]. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 3 [1890s]. Ref: B-018-007. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23064519

A colourful arrangement of the flowerheads, berries and leaves of four native plants — Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925: [Kiekie (freycinetia banksii), nikau (rhopalostylis sapida), five finger (pseudopanax arboreum) and karaka (corynocarpus laevigata) in fruit]. 1879. Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925: New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 2. Ref: C-023-002. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23028280

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