Blue fountain bush, the blue-flowered glory tree or the beetle killer, Rotheca serrata. Broad-leaved clerodendrum, Clerodendrum macrophyllum. Native to Mauritius, introduced by Southwark brewer Robert Barclay from his gardens at Bury Hill. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, London, 1824.
Blue fountain bush, the blue-flowered glory tree or the beetle killer, Rotheca serrata. Broad-leaved clerodendrum, Clerodendrum macrophyllum. Native to Mauritius, introduced by Southwark brewer Robert Barclay from his gardens at Bury Hill. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, London, 1824.