Tree rhododendron, Rhododendron arboreum. White-fringed tree rhododendron, Rhododendron arborea fimbriata. Native of the Himalayas, white variety raised by nurseryman Joseph Knight of King's Road, Chelsea. 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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