In addition to plant specimens, Drummond also sent seeds of "D. nobilis" to England. Plants were raised from Drummond's seeds, and in 1852 one of them flowered, making "D. nobilis" one of only two dryandras known to have flowered in Europe from Drummond's seed. The flowering specimen was about seven years old at the time, and about four feet high. It became the basis for a lithographed plate by Walter Hood Fitch, which was featured in Volume 78 of "Curtis's Botanical Magazine". By this time, however, the enthusiasm for Proteaceae that prevailed among horticulturalists in the 1840s had waned, and "D. nobilis" would be the last dryandra to feature in "Curtis's Botanical Magazine".