The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 15/5/66 ¶ Dear Dr Hooker. ¶ ¶ Among all the plants now most desirable to be introduced into Australia the Manihot utilissima & especially Manihot Aipi ¶ would be the most important. Neither has foun...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 210. 66.05.15b

Plant names

Manihot Aipi
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Manihot utilissima
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1866-05-15 [66.05.15b]. 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/1860-9/1866/66-05-15b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

15/5/66

Dear Dr Hooker.

Among all the plants now most desirable to be introduced into Australia the & especially

Cassava and tapioca are prepared from Manihot root.

would be the most important. Neither has found its way to us. Could you not manage to send us the plant? Pray let me be so immodest to remark, that I should be delighted to have bits of sporebearing parts of all the ferns you cultivate at Kew. From these fresh spores we could readily raise all these beautiful things; for my cultivated fern collection is as yet not containing more than about 120 species.

Your regardful

Ferd Mueller