Blue-ginger or thyrse-flowered dichorisandra, Dichorisandra thyrsiflora. Native to Brazil, seeds sent by botanist Johann Christian Mikan from Rio de Janeiro, specimen raised by Rev. John Clowes of Broughton Hall, Manchester. Handcoloured engraving by Frederick William Smith after a botanical illustration by Samuel Holden from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 3, Orr, London, 1837.

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