Calliandra houstoniana

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Large flowering sensitive-plant.

Artist

Name:: Reinagle, Philip
Dates:: 1749-1833
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Plants
Technique:: Etching
Engraver:: Stadler, Joseph Constantine
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: Missouri Botanical Garden Library, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus: and the temple of Flora, or garden of nature
Author:: Thornton, Robert John
Publisher:: London: 1807
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Description:

Aquatint showing a blooming Calliandra houstoniana in a hilly landscape with fluttering hummingbirds.
Calliandra houstoniana, formerly know as Mimosa grandiflora and Calliandra grandiflora, is a plant in the family Fabaceae native to Mexico.

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