The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: It is the native hop or Daviesia latifolia. It is a native of Victoria, Tasmania, and New South Wales. The foliage is very bitter and has pronounced medicinal properties, so that this remedy (for hyda...

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Daviesia latifolia
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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Weekly Times, 1896-09. 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/1890-6/1896/96-09-00-final.odt>, accessed May 7, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Questions and answers', Weekly times, 19 September 1896, p. 34 (B96.09.04). It is introduced by '"Inquirer," Cosgrove.— We have submitted the piece of shrub sent to Baron von Mueller. He says'.

It is the native hop or . It is a native of Victoria, Tasmania, and New South Wales. The foliage is very bitter and has pronounced medicinal properties, so that this remedy (for hydatids) should be used with great caution. The Government of one of our colonies has forbidden the use of this plant as a substitute for hops on account of deleterious action having arisen from the use of its foliage.