Botanical Collection

In the botanical collection, you will find an original and remarkable collection of plant-related documents, including all of the documents in the Villa Thuret library, as well as numerous works on fruit cultivation from the INRAE collection.

Access to the digitized documents

The Villa Thuret library, managed today by INRAE, was created by Gustave Thuret, an eminent botanist, when he settled in Cap d'Antibes in 1857. It contains an original and remarkable documentary legacy on plants including flora, botanical monographs, plant biology, horticulture and arboriculture, exotic plant species and acclimatization.

You will find some of these documents in the botanical collection: old, recent or rare books, journal collections.

The botanical collection also includes treatises and illustrated works on fruit cultivation from the INRAE collections.

 

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  • Oil and diseases, or the curious combination of agricultural research
    Botany

    Oil and diseases, or the curious combination of agricultural research

    Between the 1920s and 1960s, several painters and illustrators devote themselves to faithfully depicting plant diseases studied in Versailles at the agronomic research institute that, in 1946, becomes INRA.

  • The end of the holidays... and the end of the beans!
    Colletotrichum lindemuthianum on beans (drawing by Madeleine Huau, 1931).
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    The end of the holidays... and the end of the beans!

    This illustration, created in 1931 by Madeleine Huau, depicts bean seeds affected by Colletotrichum lindemuthianum, a parasitic fungus responsible for anthracnose. Precise and detailed, it demonstrates the essential role of scientific drawing at a time when color photography was not yet used to document plant diseases. A document that is both aesthetic and valuable for the history of agricultural research.