The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Richmond ¶ Jany 8th 1887 ¶ My dear Baron, ¶ ¶ The flowers of ¶ Eupomatia laurina ¶ are of "a greenish yellow colour", but they soon turn to a kind of brown & wither away. I have eaten the fruit, & ...

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RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 87.01.08

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Callitris
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Eucalyptus Capitella
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Eucalyptus eugenioides
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Eucalyptus macrorhyncha
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Eucalyptus pauciflora
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Eupomatia laurina
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Frenela muelleri
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Pomaderris ledifolia
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Preferred Citation:

William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1887-01-08. 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/1880-9/1887/87-01-08-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS found with a specimen of muelleri (MEL 1596739).

Richmond

N.S.W.

Jany 8th 1887

My dear Baron,

The flowers of are of "a greenish yellow colour", but they soon turn to a kind of brown & wither away. I have eaten the fruit, & though certainly very inferior to the cherimoyes,

i.e. Annona cherimoia.

it resembles that plant in flavour. I have sometimes thought that Eupomatia might improve by cultivation.

The at Mount Wilson does not exceed a foot or so, but the fruit resembles that of F. Muelleri ,

which is plentiful on the banks of George's River & is only a small tree

I sent you from Mudgee

NSW.

many years ago. I did not then know what it was & you gave me the name. I have not any specimen.

The Eucalypt at Mount Wilson rose to a great height without a branch & we could not get any branchlet. The fruit underneath seemed to be that of E. macrorhyncha . The leaves I enclose came from a young tree in the neighbourhood, & they answer very well to the leaves of your figure, & differ from those of E. eugenioides or Capitella.

E. capitellata?

I am much obliged for the seeds, & I intend to send a paragraph to the S. M. Herald

Woolls may have been the source of the paragraph that appeared in the Sydney morning herald on 12 January 1887, p. 9, about M's distributing seeds of two species of Medicago as potentially useful fodder plants.

about them.

Do you think that the enclosed fragment of Pomaderris from Mount Wilson is P. ledifolia ?

I am reserving the large fruit of the to send you

Yours very sincerely

W. Woolls

Baron F. von Mueller [R. S.] &c

&c&c

Melbourne

E. pauciflora is on Mt Wilson