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Original watercolour painting
Artwork: 26 x 18 cm
STRELITZIA REGINAE
Plant hunting has always been know as a dangerous occupation. As far as first hand accounts go, Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg came across this striking bloom, almost coming a cropper after a run-in with a very ruffled buffalo. An emotional encounter, that cost him his steeds, bereft and distraught he came upon 'the most beautiful plant, the Bird of Paradise.
From the best selling book 'A Short History of Flowers', by Advolly Richmond OBE.
Original watercolour painting
Artwork: 26 x 18 cm
STRELITZIA REGINAE
Plant hunting has always been know as a dangerous occupation. As far as first hand accounts go, Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg came across this striking bloom, almost coming a cropper after a run-in with a very ruffled buffalo. An emotional encounter, that cost him his steeds, bereft and distraught he came upon 'the most beautiful plant, the Bird of Paradise.
From the best selling book 'A Short History of Flowers', by Advolly Richmond OBE.