Plant parts of potato Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Alemaria by Antonia Koornneef, 1971

Watercolour and pencil, 20.5 x 29.4cm. This scientific drawing of several stages of growth of a potato was made by Antonia (‘Tonie’ or ‘Tons’) Koornneef (16 May 1919 to 12 December 2012). She worked at the ‘Government Institute for Research on Varieties of Cultivated Plants’ in Wageningen. Several hundred of her watercolours of potato cultivars were published in the Dutch Potato Atlas.

Sources

Dutch potato atlas / Koornneef, A., en B. Marxmeier, s.n., 1961.
Tekenen van leven: Tekeningen, aquarellen en kaarten ten behoeve van de landbouwwetenschappen / Samengesteld door Rob Aalpol. Wageningen: Pudoc, 1984. 16 loose plates. Plate 13: Plant parts of the potato Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Alemaria