Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13645

    Forest in Papakura, New Zealand

    Date
    1863
    Creator
    Arnold Meermann (1829 - 1908, German) , Lithographer
    After
    Carl Frank Fischer (German-born) , Physician
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN14633
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 185mm
    width (print): 265mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    Description
    Landscape study of forest in Papakura, Auckland on New Zealand’s North Island. The view incorporates seven plant species that are separately captioned, left to right: New Zealand tree fern Dicksonia squarrosa; the conifer Podocarpus; the Nikau palm
    Rhopalostylis sapida (here styled Areca sapida); an evergreen Elaeocarpus; the silver tree-fern Cyathea dealbata; the Northern rātā Metrosideroo robusta; and New Zealand flax Phormium tenax.

    Plate 12 from the book Neu-Seeland by Ferdinand von Hochstetter (Stuttgart, 1863).

    Inscribed above: ‘Neu-Seeland: Provinz Auckland.’ Inscribed below: ‘C. Fischer del. A. Meermann sc. Urwald im Papakura District.’

    Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand Ritter von Hochstetter (1829-1884), German geologist active in Austria and New Zealand.

    Associated place
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