Purple wreath, Petrea volubilis. Native to tropical America, imported by nurseryman George Loddiges. Stapelia-flowered petrea, Petrea stapelsiae. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved 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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