The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ The highest Eucalyptus actually measured in Dandenong was 420 feet high, and I got one measured nearly as high at the Upper Yarra and the Upper Goulburn River, ¶ the trees being Eucalyptus amygdal...

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77.08.00a

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Eucalyptus amygdalina var regnans
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Robert Ellery, 1877-08 [77.08.00a]. 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/1870-9/1877/77-08-00a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here was quoted by Ellery in a letter to R. Abbay , quoted by the latter in an article published in Gardeners' chronicle , 20 October 1877, p. 491 (B77.10.03). The item was reprinted in Australasian , 20 April 1878, p. 506. Late August is the latest likely date that Ellery could have written for his letter to reach Abbay in time to be published in this issue; M's letter to Ellery was at about the same time, as in introducing M’s report Ellery wrote: ‘I have this moment got the following from him in reply to an inquiry I made in order to be quite sure of his experience’.

The highest Eucalyptus actually measured in Dandenong was 420 feet high, and I got one measured nearly as high at the Upper Yarra and the Upper Goulburn River,

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the trees being Eucalyptus amygdalina var. regnans. A Eucalyptus at Dandenong also was 295 feet to the first branch, and 365 feet to where the top was broken off, the diameter of the broken part being 3 feet.