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From Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle   [May 1881]

[Double-Flowered Epacris.— We have already figured a double-flowered variety of great beauty — E. onosmaeflora flore-pleno,1 and which is becoming known in gardens. Baron von Mueller now sends a spray of E. microphylla with similar flowers to the one just mentioned, but smaller. It was gathered in the neighbourhood of Port Jackson.]

Epacris microphylla

Epacris onosmaeflora flore-pleno

1

Gardeners' chronicle, 11 March 1876, p. 340, fig, 360, propagated by the nurseryman William Bull.

2

Letter not found. The text given here is from Gardeners' chronicle, 25 June 1881, p. 822. It is dated to early May as the latest that it could have been sent to have been reported in this issue.

Please cite as “FVM-81-05-00e,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/81-05-00e