Cape primrose, Streptocarpus rexii.

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Cape primrose, Streptocarpus rexii. Handcoloured woodblock print from Konan Tanigami's "Seiyou Sokazufu" (Pictorial Album of Western Plants and Flowers: Summer), Unsodo, Kyoto, 1917. Tanigami (1879-1928) depicted 125 varieties of garden plants through the four seasons.

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Size: 5731px × 3909px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1879-1928, 1917, album, artist, botanical, cape, engraving, flowers, garden, gardening, handcoloured, illustration, japanese, kakicho, konan, kyoto, pictorial, plants, primrose, print, rexii, seasons, seiyou, shokei, sokazufu, streptocarpus, summer, tanigami, ukiyo-, unsodo, western, woodblock