Vegetable Sheep - Specimen details

Vegetable Sheep - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 61602

Plant Name 88.00 COMPOSITAE Raoulia mamillaria Entry Book Number 56:1873
Artefact Name Vegetable Sheep Vernacular Name
Iso Country New Zealand TDWG Region New Zealand
Parts Held Vegetable Sheep Geography Description New Zealand, Alps of Canterbury, Mount Torlesse
Uses Vegetable SheepUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Dr Haast FRS Donor No
Donor Date 06/06/1873 Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: The Vegetable Sheep of the New Zealand Shepherds. This curious plant, which is allied to Gnaphalium, forms masses on the bare mountain tops, sp closely resembling sheep at a very short distance that the most experienced shepherds are oftend, eceived by their appearance. Examined and verified by Sir Joseph Hooker Dec. 1881.
Determinations:88.00 COMPOSITAE Raoulia mamillaria Hk.f.
    88.00 COMPOSITAE Raoulia eximia H.k.fil.

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