Curtis Botanical – Plate 8490 – Loret's Rock Rose (Hybrid)

Original antique black-and-white botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine — Plate 8490.

Plant: Cistus Loreti X (Loret's Rock Rose — Hybrid). Native to: Mediterranean (garden hybrid).

The X marks this as a deliberately bred hybrid. Rock roses produce paper-thin flowers that last only a single day — but in such abundance the plant is always covered in bloom. The quintessential Mediterranean shrub: thriving in poor dry soil, producing beauty continuously.

Printed in London. Each print is an original page removed from a bound volume of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, the world's oldest continuously published botanical journal (founded 1787). Uncolored plate. Sold individually. Minor age-related toning consistent with 19th-century paper.

This plate originated with the Royal Horticultural Society and passed through Wheldon & Wesley, one of the great natural history dealers of the 20th century. We came into the archive by accident and have spent the time since trying to share it as widely as we can.