Curtis Botanical – Plate 7137 – Narrow-leaved Caraguata

Original antique black-and-white botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine — Plate 7137.

Plant: Caraguata Angustifolia (Narrow-leaved Caraguata). Native to: South America (cloud forest).

The genus name comes from an indigenous Guaraní word — one of the few native South American names to enter formal botanical Latin. Indigenous knowledge of these plants predated European botany by centuries, and this name is one of the quiet traces left behind.

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.