Plant - Specimen details

Plant - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 71815

Plant Name 88.00 COMPOSITAE Raoulia eximia Entry Book Number 42:1924
Artefact Name Plant Vernacular Name
Iso Country New Zealand TDWG Region New Zealand
Parts Held Plant Geography Description New Zealand, Mount Torlesse
Uses PlantUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
Storage Extra-large shelving Related Items
Donor Canterbury Museum Donor No
Donor Date 30/07/1924 Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: Canterbury Museum Type Specimen. These plants, mostly from New Zealand, grow in large tufts in mountainous areas. Each short branch is densely clothed in minute smooth or woolly leaves, with a single starry white flower in the apex of eacht, wig. From a distance they may look like sheep hence the name sheep plant or vegetable sheep.

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