Bird-of-paradise plant (Strelitzia reginae): flower and leaf. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).

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Bird-of-paradise flower is also known as the crane flower

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1 painting : watercolour

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Strelitzia reginae ... Lettering continues: "canna-leaved strelitzia. class V pentandria. order I monogynia. perennial. cultivated by stove. flowers may and june. native of the Cape of Good Hope. introduced 1773."

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Wellcome Collection 22163i

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