The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ Gastrolobium grandiflorum ¶ . — This year large flocks have started for the Flinders, ¶ and on the road out have had frightful losses from this poisonous Gastrolobe. It is most destructive, and fo...

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65.01.00a

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Gastrolobium grandiflorum
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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1865-01 [65.01.00a]. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id//letters/1860-9/1865/65-01-00a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Letter not found. For the text given here, see 'Foreign Correspondence', Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette , 25 February 1865, p. 174 (B65.02.05). It is dated to January as the latest likely date for it to have been sent to be published in this issue. See also M to J. Lindley, 21 January 1865 (in this edition as 65-01-21a).

. — This year large flocks have started for the Flinders,

Flinders River, Qld. See also M to the Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette, 25 July 1864 (in this edition as 64-07-25c).

and on the road out have had frightful losses from this poisonous Gastrolobe. It is most destructive, and for a death dealer I do not think it has been surpassed. It is fatal to cattle as well as sheep. Some drop as soon as they eat it; others dash madly into the bush and are seen no more; but most of them show no symptoms of it till the morning after they have eaten of it, when they drop in hundreds.

F. M., Melbourne.