Common heath or impressed epacris, Epacris impressa. Native of Van Diemen's Land, New Holland, Tasmania, Australia. Found by English plant hunter William Baxter for nurseryman John Bain Mackey of Clapton. 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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