The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: July 1894 ¶ Plains North & South of Stirling Range ¶ ¶ Is this the forth blue heath you asked me to look for many years Since? The inner flower is certainly blue and looks like Andersonea ¶ coerulea...

Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M130, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 94.07.00a

Plant names

Andersonea coerulea
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Preferred Citation:

William Webb to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1894-07 [94.07.00a]. 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/1890-6/1894/94-07-00a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

MS is an unsigned note extracted from the Herbarium collection without recording its source, which was almost certainly one of a sequence of four Andersonias collected by Webb, now numbered MEL 561482-561485.

July 1894

Plains North & South of Stirling Range

WA.

Is this the forth blue heath you asked me to look for many years Since? The inner flower is certainly blue and looks like Andersonea

Andersonia?

coerulea, but the habit is very different.