Begonia obliqua. Native to Martinique, Dominica and Guadeloupe, named begonia by French botanist Charles Plumier. Sweet scented begonia, Begonia odorata. Handcoloured engraving by Frederick William Smith from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 4, Orr and Smith, London, 1837.

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