Chile nettle, Caiophora lateritia. Native to South America, raised in Glasgow Botanic Garden from seeds sent by Scottish botanist James Tweedie from Tucuman, Argentina. Red-flowered loasa, Loasa lateritia. Handcoloured lithograph from Joseph Paxtons Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 5, Orr and Smith, London, 1838.
Chile nettle, Caiophora lateritia. Native to South America, raised in Glasgow Botanic Garden from seeds sent by Scottish botanist James Tweedie from Tucuman, Argentina. Red-flowered loasa, Loasa lateritia. Handcoloured lithograph from Joseph Paxtons Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 5, Orr and Smith, London, 1838.