Pacific madrone, Arbutus menziesii. Lofty strawberry tree, Arbutus procera. Found on the west coast of North America by Scottish plant hunter David Douglas. 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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