Greek strawberry tree, or Oriental strawberry-tree, Arbutus andrachne. Native to the Levant and the Crimea, raised in English botanist Dr. William Sherard's garden at Eltham in 1724. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by an unknown artist from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, edited by John Sims, London, 1819.

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