From J. D. Hooker [28 September 1861]1
Royal Gardens Kew
Australian Plants naturalized on the Nilghieries2 & turning out the native trees
x Eucalyptus amygdalinus, Lab. x ——– pulverulentus Sims
——– sp? Acacia pulchella, x ——– dealbata Link x ——– melanoxilon
(the common firewood of hillstation)3
——– longifolia Willd. ——– marginata Br. x ——– verticillata Willd. var ruscifolia (makes hedges commonly) x ——– stricta, Willd. ——– decipiens, Br.
Albizzia lophantha
x Those marked thus seed most abundantly & are propagated thus— the others may or may not do so— it is believed that all do— more enquiries to be made
J. Hooker
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
List of Australian plants that have become naturalised in the Nilgiris [India] and are turning out the native trees.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3269
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 205.4: 98
- Physical description
- AmemS 1p †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3269,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3269.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9