Loddiges family
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The Loddiges family managed one of the most notable of the eighteenth and nineteenth century plant nurseries that traded in and introduced exotic plants, trees, shrubs, ferns, palms and orchids into E
Bamboo foliage with black stems (probably Phyllostachys nigra; a bamboo introduced into western cultivation by Loddiges Nursery)
The Common Mauve Rhododendron introduced into Britain by Conrad Loddiges
George Loddiges
Loddiges' family vault in St John's Church Gardens
Crataegus heterophylla
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Crataegus heterophylla, known as the various-leaved hawthorn, is of uncertain origin. Its original native range is not known, possibly it was the Caucasus of Western Asia. Suggestions that it originat
Various-leaved Hawthorn, early nineteenth-century drawing by Loudon.