Green arrow arum or tuckahoe, Peltandra virginica. Native to North America, sent by English botanist John Bradbury, flowered at Liverpool Botanic Garden in 1825. Virginia caladium, Caladium virginicum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1827.
Green arrow arum or tuckahoe, Peltandra virginica. Native to North America, sent by English botanist John Bradbury, flowered at Liverpool Botanic Garden in 1825. Virginia caladium, Caladium virginicum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1827.