Australian Botanical prints by artist Maurice Hayler, designed to endure.
Each print carries the artist’s signature and is stamp-embossed for authentication.
Our art is printed with care on Hahnemühle fine art archival paper with archival Epson UltraChrome pigment inks, good for at least 75 years. View all print and mat sizes here.

Please Note: that all orders typically leave within one to two business days.
We can (and do) process urgent and express orders on request.

Product Code: 205_Waratah_mat_small
Availability: In Stock
$47.00
Ex Tax: $42.73

Please note that frames are not included and those shown in images are for display purposes only.
We do offer custom framing should this interest you.

All available print and mat sizes are covered in detail here, but to summarise:

Flat prints are printed sheets, trimmed to size, with no mat or backing supplied.
We offer the following sizes:
5″ × 7″ (127mm × 178mm)
8″ × 10″ (203mm × 254mm)
A4 (203mm × 297mm)

Our matted prints are the same printed sheets, but placed in archival (acid-free) mat and backing ready to frame.
(You can read more about our acid-free materials here.)
These come in the following sizes:
5″ × 7″ in a white 8″ × 10″ mat (outer dimensions are 203mm × 254mm)
8″ × 10″ in a white 12″ × 14″ mat (outer dimensions are 305mm × 356mm) (please note this is a non-standard size: read more here)
A4 in a white 12″ × 16″ mat (outer dimensions are 305mm × 406mm)

More detailed information about all print and mat sizes is here.


Botanical Information:

Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Telopea
Species: speciosissima

Meaning of name:
Telopea is from Greek: telopos, seen from afar, a reference to the distance at which the flowers are visible. The genus was named in 1810 by Robert Brown (1773–1858), a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who did much for botany with his pioneering work with the microscope. He also contributed greatly to Australian botany
speciosissima is from Latin: speciosus, handsome, beautiful + the superlative form. Most handsome, most beautiful

The waratah was officially made the floral emblem of New South Wales in 1962, and has a natural range of only about 200km from Sydney. Another isolated pocket was thought to exist in the Gibraltar Range in northern New South Wales, but this was described as a separate species by botanists Peter Weston and Mike Crisp in 1995 and is now known as Telopea aspera (the Gibraltar Range Waratah).

T. speciosissima grows as a shrub some 3m to 4m (10 to 13 feet) high and 2m (6.5 feet) wide. The flowers are the ideal cut flower, being long-lasting (10 to 14 days) and with a prominent head on a single stem, and are widely cultivated for the cut flower industry both in Australia and overseas.

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