Large-flowered monsonia, Monsonia speciosa, with large pink flowers.
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3486 x 5327 px | 29.5 x 45.1 cm | 11.6 x 17.8 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
1844Photographer:
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Large-flowered monsonia, Monsonia speciosa, with large pink flowers. A native of the Cape, South Africa. Illustration by Henrietta Moriarty from "Fifty Plates of Greenhouse Plants" (1807), a re-issue of her own "Viridarium" (1806), with handcoloured copperplate engravings. Moriarty was a colonel's widow who turned to writing novels and illustrating botanical books to support her four children.