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histsciart: Happy Flora Friday! New Zealand flower Clianthus...

 

 

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Happy Flora Friday!

 

New Zealand flower Clianthus puniceus is commonly known as “kākā beak” after the NZ parrot of the same name.

 

SciArt by Sarah Ann Drake for Edwards’s Botanical Register, Vol. 21 (1836). View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Raven Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden for digitizing.

 

Sarah Ann Drake was a prolific illustrator for this serial publication. Her work can be viewed in #BHLib’s Flickr.

 

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