Hong Kong gordonia, Taiwan gordonia, fried egg plant, Gordonia axillaris or Polyspora axillaris. Native to China, raised at Whitley, Brames and Milne nursery. Axillary-flowered camellia, Camellia axillaris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by an unknown artist from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, edited by John Sims, London, 1819.

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