To Joseph Hooker   15 May 1866

15/5/66

Dear Dr Hooker.

Among all the plants now most desirable to be introduced into Australia the Manihot utilissima & especially Manihot Aipi1 would be the most important. Neither has found its way to us. Could you not manage to send us the plant? Pray let me be so immodest to remark, that I should be delighted to have bits of sporebearing parts of all the ferns you cultivate at Kew. From these fresh spores we could readily raise all these beautiful things; for my cultivated fern collection is as yet not containing more than about 120 species.

Your regardful

Ferd Mueller

 

Manihot Aipi

Manihot utilissima

1
Cassava and tapioca are prepared from Manihotroot.

Please cite as “FVM-66-05-15b,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/66-05-15b