Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M16, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 80.04.22

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Patrick O'Shanesy to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1880-04-22. 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/1880-9/1880/80-04-22-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Corymbia trachyphloia (MEL 232277). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 2/5/80'. Letter not found.
Emerald
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Qld.
April 22/80
Dear Baron Mueller
I have much pleasure in sending you a fragment of a new Eucalyptus ( E. Curreyana
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Name not published (APNI, IPNI accessed 3 June 2023). MS annotation by M: 'trachyphloia'.
) which I have found in the sandstone ranges in the neighbourhood of Stanwell.
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Qld.
It has the general appearance of E. crebra , but the venation of the leaves is different, and the bark is brown, soft, fibrous and lamellar. I have not seen the flowers. The fresh luxurient shoots smell like the 'scented gum' altho it is scarcely perceptible in the dry state.
I am sorry I have not as yet been able to procure the samples of the woods you asked for although I have been promised them long ago.
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M may have requested specimens in response to the offer made in P. O'Shanesy to M, 20 August 1879.
Yours faithfully
P. A. O'Shanesy