The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: The specimen submitted is of an Australian Acacia, but as neither flowers nor fruits are on the branches, it will not be safe to name the species. What looks like a fruit is a gall. Such galls are use...

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Weekly Times, 1885-07 [85.07.00b]. 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/1880-9/1885/85-07-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Answers to correspondents', Weekly times, 18 July 1885, Farmers gazette supplement, p. 1 (B85.07.09). It is introduced by ' Specimen of Tree . — A D, Little River. — Baron von Mueller, to whom we submitted your specimen, returned the following reply: —'.

The specimen submitted is of an Australian , but as neither flowers nor fruits are on the branches, it will not be safe to name the species. What looks like a fruit is a gall. Such galls are useful for dye and tan, as shown by me in the exhibition of 1867

Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, Melbourne, 1866-7.

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