The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 20/6/70 ¶ ¶ The Argania seeds, dear Dr Hooker, did not arrive. ¶ I raised one tree of Argania Sideroxylon 16 years ago, ¶ but the growth in our clime and in our locality is so slow, that the tree i...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 437. 70.06.20

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Argania Sideroxylon
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1870-06-20. 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/1870-9/1870/70-06-20-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

20/6/70

The Argania seeds, dear Dr Hooker, did not arrive.

See J. Hooker to M, 28 March 1870 (in this edition as 70-03-28b).

I raised one tree of 16 years ago,

6 over 8, or vice versa. See W. Hooker to M, 9 April 1854; and M to W. Hooker, 27 May 1854.

but the growth in our clime and in our locality is so slow, that the tree is only now about mans high. It has not yet flowered. I fully anticipate, that thirty years growth will form no commencement [even]

even interlined.

of a colossal stem in culture . You can not possibly give them that nourishment, which an ever running brook and the decaying forest leaves of a natural valley of deep soil afford. It is quite possible that your from here is several 100 years old. If the recesses of the mountains were well examined in rich gullies of S. Africa, doubtless huge s would be found there as well. In dry gullies the plant may grow for many hundred years, merely as it were exisiting, but never attaining gigantic dimensions.

Always Yr.

Ferd. von Mueller

has recently be found as far west as St. Vincents Gulf.