Lilium auratum (W. H. Fitch)

The nineteenth century botanists and Kew Directors William Jackson Hooker and his son Joseph Dalton Hooker relied heavily on the artist Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892), who illustrated numerous books and periodicals for them. In 1845 Joseph named a Polynesian plant, Fitchia nutans for him.Illustration - W. H. Fitch’s painting of Lilium auratum for Elwes’ The genus Lilium