Gloxinia hybrd. Cross of G. speciosa and G. candida, raised at the Epsom nursery of Messrs. Young. Native to Brazil. Largest-flowered gloxinia, Gloxinia maxima. Handcoloured lithograph from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 5, Orr and Smith, London, 1838.

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