Sinningia cooperi. Native to Brazil, and sent to Mrs Arnold Harrison by her brother around 1829. Named for the wife of Joseph Cooper, botanic gardener at Wentworth. Mrs Cooper's gesneria, Gesneria cooperi. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by Frederick William Smith from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 1, Orr and Smith, London, 1834.

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