The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Musa No 1 – ¶ ¶ I send an additional sample of ripe fruit & young fruit & flower of the Upright Musa – I find that this species very rarely has suckers – the increase being by Seed which grows very f...

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Physical location:

MEL 657789, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 75.10.00

Plant names

Bowenia
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Musa
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Preferred Citation:

Eugene Fitzalan to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1875-10. 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/1870-9/1875/75-10-00-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS found with specimen of hillii collected by Fitzalan and named by M (B75.11.02, p. 169). Dating based on a separate scrap of paper attached to specimen sheet, in M’s hand: ‘ Hillii | Daintree River [Qld] Oct 1875’.

No 1 –

I send an additional sample of ripe fruit & young fruit & flower of the Upright – I find that this species very rarely has suckers – the increase being by Seed which grows very freely – as wherever ground has been cleared for a camp it comes up thick all over it. = Hills “ ” has not any ripe flowers but I [...]

MS cut off, unknown amount of text missing. Annotation by M: ‘M Hillii’.