Images Dated 12th April 2010

New Zealand Flowers and fruit Marianne North Painting 721

The spherical plant in the foreground is a small specimen of the "Vegetable. Sheep" ( Raoulia eximia, Hook.f.). It inhabits the mountains, growing as large and looking so much like a recumbent sheep at a little distance that shepherds

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