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  A French engraver, came from a family of  engravers. His brother, Victoire, was an engraver as was his father, Auguste  Plee, a botanist, illustrator and engraver who travelled widely in South America  collecting plants in the early nineteenth century.
Source: Extracted from: Wrigley, J.W. (2013) Eucalypt Flowers, National Library of  Australia, Canberra.