Lynne Stone is a Victorian based textile artist specialising in botanical embroideries of Australian native flora. Lynne has used her technical skills to develop a software program for her sewing machine to automatically stitch some elements of her designs. Botanical model of Acacia Pycnantha "Golden Wattle" in flower with open flowers, flower buds and leaves. Embroidered using machine embroidery on an organza base. Wrapped wires and hand embroidered elements, hand coloured.australian native flora, flora

Cliff Beauglehole was an orchardist at Portland, Victoria, who throughout hislife took an intense interest in the plants of Victoria. Over his lifetime he collected 90,000 plant specimens as part of a comprehensive study of Victoria's plants and wrote thirteen books under the heading The Distribution and Conservation of Vascular Plants in Victoria, each written to cover the 13 study areas of the Victorian and Conservation Council.A mounted botanical specimen.beauglehole herbarium, herbarium specimen, botany, herbarium, plant science, plant specimen, field naturalists' club ballarat, federation university herbarium, acacia pycnantha, golden wattle, fabaceae