Curtis Botanical – Plate 8049 – Spiny Felicia / Blue Daisy

Original antique black-and-white botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine — Plate 8049.

Plant: Felicia Echinata (Spiny Felicia / Blue Daisy). Native to: South Africa (Cape Floristic Region).

Felicia means happiness in Latin. This small South African shrub produces sky-blue daisy flowers — true blue is genuinely rare in the plant kingdom. The Cape Floristic Region where it grows has more plant species per square kilometer than the Amazon.

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.