[Peanut Plant.— Flower Girl, Mount Gambier.2— You send only one leaf and that without any explanatory remarks. Correspondents when sending plant specimens for identification should always send as complete a plant as possible. For example, there are, says Baron von Mueller, about 7000 distinct species of leguminous plants known, with countess varieties, and as it is not indicated from which part of the world the plant came it cannot be named until complete specimens with flowers and fruits are obtained. The leaf sent, continues the Baron, is not of the Peanut plant arachis nypogaea,3 as it has several, not merely two, pairs of leaflets, which are broader, thinner in texture and not pointed.]
Arachis nypogaea
Please cite as “FVM-96-03-00b,” 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