Blood lily, ball lily, fireball lily or blood flower, Scadoxus multiflorus. Raised at Scottish nurserymen James Lee and Lewis Kennedy's nursery. Sierra Leone blood-flower, Haemanthus multiflorus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by an unknown artist from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, edited by John Sims, London, 1818.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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