Common heath, Epacris impressa. Native to Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Australia, introduced by nurserymen Messrs. Mackey (Lowe), Clapton, 1825. Epacris impressa and variable epacris, Epacris variabilis. 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 4, Orr and Smith, London, 1837.

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