The Ceylon Plates
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Woolly tree ferns from above. Hakgala or Nuwara Eliya area (probable).
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Natural History

Woolly tree ferns from above

Hakgala or Nuwara Eliya area (probable)
c. 1875–1895

Certainty
Likely
A probable identification that has not been confirmed.
On the print
"Alsophila crinita, Woolly Tree-Ferns" - Scowen & Co
Maker
Scowen & Co
Date basis
Scowen negatives were sold on in the mid-1890s; a print could be later
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Place
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Reference
TCP-N206

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