Curtis Botanical – Plate 6949 – Revolute Escallonia / Chilean Heather

Original antique black-and-white print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine — Plate 6949.

A Chilean shrub with small pink flowers and leaves rolled back at the margins (revoluta = rolled back), related to the familiar Escallonia hedging shrubs used widely in Pacific NW and British gardens. Named for Sebastián de Escallon, an 18th-century Spanish-Colombian naturalist.

Pacific NW (OR, WA, Northern CA) — escallonias are staple hedging and garden shrubs in the maritime Northwest.

Uncolored plate. Condition consistent with age of volume. Each print is a unique piece of botanical history, printed on paper aged over a century.

This is an original uncolored (plain) plate from leftover publisher stock of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, printed in London. It was issued uncolored and never bound. We bought the holding at the estate of a Chicago rare bookseller. Labels and stock papers from the British dealer Wheldon & Wesley came with it. Library stamps, when present, are noted on the listing.