Everlasting, Syncarpha eximia. Native to the Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa, introduced by Scottish plant collector Colonel William Patterson in 1793. Fine astelma, Astelma eximium, Gnaphalium eximium. 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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