Helichrysum grandiceps

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Alexander Turnbull Library: Helichrysum grandiceps – the New Zealand Edelweiss. Shows this species with its brown and gold colouring, growing in the foreground, with Mount Patriarch in the right distance. Accompanied by typescript page of textual commentary, and poem “The edelweiss”. Numbered “12” in pencil on both illustration and text. Recto – bottom centre:: (In pencil): 12. Ref: E-001-q-013.

Further Description (Fredrika Van Elburg): Painting of NZ edelweiss on bare smooth sharp angled rocks, more in the middle distance and snow capped mountain in the background. Page marked 12 in pencil below the image.

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