Long-pistilled. Erica canaliculata, Channelled Heath, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
In 1809 Henry Cranke Andrews (<1797-1830) made a marvellous drawing of this heath. It was done presumably from the plant in the private garden of George Hibbert (1757-1837) at Clapham (London). Hibbert was an amateur botanist and he had an enormous collection of plants from all over the world. He was able to make that collection from the money he earned through his activities as a slave trader (he was a leading politician in England against abolition). In 1798/9 he sent Scotsman James Niven (1776-1827) to South Africa to collect plants for him. There Niven came upon our Erica which he duly sent to his employer.
Long-pistilled. Erica canaliculata, Channelled Heath, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
In 1809 Henry Cranke Andrews (<1797-1830) made a marvellous drawing of this heath. It was done presumably from the plant in the private garden of George Hibbert (1757-1837) at Clapham (London). Hibbert was an amateur botanist and he had an enormous collection of plants from all over the world. He was able to make that collection from the money he earned through his activities as a slave trader (he was a leading politician in England against abolition). In 1798/9 he sent Scotsman James Niven (1776-1827) to South Africa to collect plants for him. There Niven came upon our Erica which he duly sent to his employer.