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Banksia coccinea from Ferdinand Bauer's 1813 flora "Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae"

A botanical illustrator is a person who paints, sketches or otherwise illustrates botanical subjects such as trees and flowers. The job requires great artistic skill, attention to fine detail, and technical botanical knowledge. Typical illustrations will be in watercolour, in life size, or if not, the scale shown, and show face and reverse of leaves, flowers, bud, seed and root system.

Famous botanical illustrators include:

The Linnaean Society of London awards the Jill Smythies Award for botanical illustration.