["Wynyard" (Tasmania).—Baron von Mueller recognises the small fragrant epiphytal orchard1 as Sarcochilus parviflorus, and states that it is often found on the native musk tree as well as on tree ferns. He adds that a small Dendrobium also exists in Tasmania, where parasitic orchids are found, as well as in New Zealand; but none of these occur as indigenous in Southern Europe.]
Sarcochilus parviflorus
Dendrobium
typesetter's error for orchid?
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Horticultural. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 21 December 1895, p. 1175. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 18 December 1895 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-95-12-13,” 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