Exotic flora : containing figures and descriptions of new, rare or otherwise interesting exotic plants, especially of such as are deserving of being cultivated in our gardens; together with remarks upon their generic and specific characters, natural order, history, culture, time of flowering etc
Exotic Flora is a botanical book by William Jackson Hooker, published by Blackwood in 1823, describing new and rare exotic plants for cultivation in British gardens. Its engraved plates show orchids, flowering stems, and dissected flower parts drawn in fine pen-and-line detail, with labelled analytical sections a designer could borrow for botanical motifs.
