17/4/93.
The Giant-Todea, dear Prof. Lange, went last week by the Peninsular and Oriental Steamer, so that it should arrive in London towards the End of May, and can be in Copenhagen about the beginning of June.1 I shall be joyful, if I learn, that it safely arrived, and that it gave pleasure to my Danish science-friends. The strong box, in which it was placed, is from the wood of Eucalyptus obliqua, therefore the species, on which L'Heritier founded the genus. This species requires abundance of water, not stagnant. It occurs on Mountain-rivulets naturally. The plant sent is probably more than 200 year[s] old, and there is no hinderance it living hundreds of years yet in culture, if sufficient water and nutriment be given, and if it is protected against severe frosts.
As I am to publish the third Census of Austral plants soon,2 would you kindly from your long experience give me your ideas, how you would place the Monochlamydeae, except Gymnospermae, if you had to insert them amoung the other dicotyledonous orders.
Regardfully always
your Ferd. von Mueller
Eucalyptus obliqua
Gymnospermae
Monochlamydeae
Todea
Please cite as “FVM-93-04-17,” 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