Cloven gum box, Escallonia bifida. Montevideo escallonia, Escallonia monteoidensis. Native to Montevideo, Uruguay, and Brazil, introduced by German botanist Friedrich Sellow. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by Frederick William Smith from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 2, Orr, London, 1836.

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