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 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.