The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: [The accompanying illustration (fig. 36, p. 251) ¶ 89-07-00a_image01.jpg. ¶ represents, on a reduced scale, a branch of Banksia marginata, for which we are indebted to Baron Von Mueller. It will be s...

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1889-07 [89.07.00a]. 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/1880-9/1889/89-07-00a-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

Letter not found. For the text given here, see 'Curled leaves', Gardeners' chronicle , 31 August 1889, p. 250. It is dated to July as the latest likely date for the letter to have been sent for it to be reported in this issue.

[The accompanying illustration (fig. 36, p. 251)

represents, on a reduced scale, a branch of , for which we are indebted to Baron Von Mueller. It will be seen that the upper surface of the leaf is rolled back from the tip towards the base.]

The anonymous article continues by discussing other cases of curled leaves, with a comment on the mechanism that produces the effect, although the mechanism 'does not help us to the reason why'.