Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE- 	Plate No. 776

Click thumbnail for larger image

-COMMON_NAMES-Brown-tipped Xeranthemum
-GENUS-Xeranthemum
-SPECIES-Xeranthemum variegatum
-CLASS-Syngenesia
-ORDER-Polygamia Superflua
-AUTHORITY-Linnaeus
-MODERN_GENUS-Helichrysum
-MODERN_SPECIEbS-Helichrysum vestitum
-MODERN_FAMILY- Asteraceae alt. Compositae
-PLANT_TYPE-  Greenhouse Plant
-COLOR- "nearly white, but the coloured tips of the scales of the calyx...
         is always ferrugineous (rust colored) but sometimes mixed more or 
		 less with purple or red." Sometimes grading from yellows to golds
		 to black to purple.
-SEASON- Greenhouse Plant
-NATIVE_REGION- Cape of Good Hope (S Africa)
-ZONE-__
-SOURCE-The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME-20
-PUB_DATE-1804
-REISSUED-  __
-EDITOR-John Sims
-ARTIST-S. Edwards, Sansum
-NALPCD-Disc 0427 IMG0024.PCD