Brunswigia toxicaria
c.1852. Louis Benoît van Houtte was a Belgian horticulturist who was with the Jardin Botanique de Brussels between 1836 and 1838 and is best known for the journal "Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe", produced with Charles Lemaire and M. Scheidweiler, an extensive work boasting more than 2,000 coloured plates in 23 volumes published between 1845 and 1883. A Chromolithograph print, a 19th-century color printing technique that uses multiple limestone blocks—sometimes over 20—to apply separate, overlapping ink layers for a vibrant, finished print. Boophone toxicaria (formerly under Brunsvigia) is a highly toxic, deciduous bulb from the Amaryllidaceae family, found in southern Africa. Known for its poisonous, alkaloid-rich bulbs used as arrow poison, it features pink to red flowers and, in some species, medicinal uses for treating wounds. 315 by 240mm (12½ by 9½ inches). Item #32749
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