Strawflower, Xerochrysum macranthum. Native to the Swan River colony, Australia, introduced to England by Captain James Mangles, Large-flowered helichrysum, Helichrysum macranthum. Handcoloured lithograph from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 5, Orr and Smith, London, 1838.

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