Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-    Plate No. 59

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-COMMON_NAMES- Two-coloured Fig-Marigold
-GENUS- Mesembryanthemum
-SPECIES- Mesembryanthemum bicolorum
-CLASS- Icosandria
-ORDER- Pentagynia
-AUTHORITY- Linnaeus

-MODERN_GENUS- Lampranthus
-MODERN_SPECIES- Lampranthus bicolor
-MODERN_FAMILY- Aizoaceae

-PLANT_TYPE- shrub
-COLOR- inside yellow and orange, deep red below
-SEASON- July, need a greenhouse in the winter
-NATIVE_REGION- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)

-SOURCE- The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME- 2
-PUB_DATE- 1788
-REISSUED- 1796
-EDITOR- William Curtis
-ARTIST- S. Edwards
-NALPCD- Disc 0644 IMG0053.PCD