waratah

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Warratta
English JS Main: 
waratah
English: 
"This small tree grows to about the height of eight or ten feet; its leaves springing out alternately above each other, in this manner [diagram]. - When the flower falls the pods appear underneath, sometimes to the number of six, (but not as represented open,) from whence succeeding branches shoot and flourish as the former." This is followed in darker ink and what appears to be a different hand "The Native name Warratta". The drawing is signed in brown ink at lower centre "Thomas Watling, delt.", but is undated. The plant is described in Wheeler and Smith (1988) as a Waratah, Telopea speciossima. The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.Waratah
Category: 
flora: flowers
Source: 
Smith & Wheeler
Page: 
229
Line: 
238
Respelt: 
warada
Part of speech: 
noun
Source Details: 
Smith, Bernard and Wheeler, Alwyne, 1988. The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian Drawings. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven amd London, in association with the Australian Academy for the Humanitioes and the British Museum (Natural History). 256 pp. -------------
Comment: 
Watling 431: This small tree grows to the height of about eight or ten feet ...