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Name[Corraea speciosa] [picture]. Plate 1. From the book: The wild flowers around Melbourne
ProductionMs Fanny Charsley; author; 1867
Classificationrare books
Materials Summaryhand-coloured lithograph
Registration NumberRB001501/001a
Overview
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CORRAEA SPECIOSA. (Andrews.)
Varity virens. Blooms in May. It is found on heathy soil, in high and low situations, and ranges from Moreton Bay to the Great Bight. The pretty bell-shaped flowers vary in colour in different parts of its range, some being of a crimson hue. It is generally called "the native Fuchsia.'' Sir William Hooker's Corraea Lawerenciana, from Victoria and Tasmania, occasionally attains the height of forty feet.