Narrowleaf airplant, Tillandsia tenuifolia. Native to South America and the Caribbean, sent from Trinidad by German botanist Eduard Freiherr von Schack, Baron de Schack. Elegant tillandsia, Tillandsia pulchra. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1827.

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