Radiator plant, Peperomia pereskiifolia (Pereskia-leaved peperomia, Peperomia pereskinaefolia). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-1865) was an English botanist who specialized in orchids and ferns, and was director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew from 1841.

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