EditorialThunberg's bushclover or hagi, Lespedeza thunbergii var. thunbergii (Desmodium penduliflorum). Japan. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de...
EditorialKeshi or opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and azumagiku or Thunberg's fleabane, Erigeron thunbergii. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900.