Pultenaea pedunculata 'Pyalong Gold'
This cultivar is a colour form of Pultenaea pedunculata Hook. It is a dense prostrate shrub that grows to 2m wide, and is very floriferous. The flowers are ca.1cm across and appear in spring. All other details for the cultivar are as for P. pedunculata.
Diagnosis:
Pultenaea 'Pyalong Gold' is readily distinguished from the usual P. pedunculata by its flower colour which is pure yellow with a small patch of red around the base of the keel and standard of the flowers.
Other notes:
Although forms close to this one are known from previous wild collections, it is uncommon and its bright yellow flowers make it more conspicuous than the more common forms of P. pedunculata. The cultivar was first selected and introduced to cultivation in October 1977.
Comparators:
Pultenaea pedunculata Hook. CBG 8311008; CBG 002505
Scaevola 'Angela Ratcliffe'
This cultivar has a prostrate habit, spreading to 1m across.
The numerous branches are densely intertwined with individual branches
having a zigzag pattern. The leaves are broad and slightly succulent in
appearance, 2.5-3cm long by up to 1cm wide at the widest point. The leaf
apex is obtuse. Both stems and leaves are covered in short stiff hairs. The
flowers are a purplish colour, borne at the ends of short branchlets, very
much resembling those of S. ramosissima.
Diagnosis:
Scaevola 'Angela Ratcliffe' differs from S. ramosissima in the
following ways. The leaves are obvate and not linear to lanceolate as in
S. ramosissima and are of a much thicker (almost succulent) texture. The
leaf apex is obtuse and not acute. Bracteoles are narrow obvate rather than
linear. Peduncles are shorter than the leaves. Peduncles of S. ramosissima
are as long as or longer than the leaves.
Spyridium parvifolium 'Nimbus'
It is a dense prostrate shrub growing to a height of about
10mm with a spread of about 2m. The small round leaves are up to 8mm long
by 6-8mm wide. The leaf tip is often indented. The green upper leaf surface
has distinct veining while the underside is silvery and covered with long
silky hairs. New foliage is distinctly grey. The small and insignificant
flowers are borne in clusters at the end of the branchlets.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from other forms of Spyridium
parvifolium in its prostrate habit.
Telopea 'Braidwood Brilliant'
The leaves are coriaceous, narrow and cuneate tapering from a long petiole. The margin is slightly undulating but at the top is distinctly toothed. The leaves measure between 15 and 20cms in length. Flowers: The flower colour, a brilliant cherry-red has been determined using the RHS Colour Chart (1966) to be Red 53B to 53C (ie style 53C). The inflorescence is slightly less conical and less dense than T. speciosissima but vastly superior to T. mongaensis in this regard with a flower diameter of 6-8cm. Bracts are present but these are less colourful than in T. speciosissima. The flowering period lasts for 2-3 weeks in October.
Notes:
Telopea speciosissima 'Wirrimbirra White'
This cultivar is a creamy white colour form of the species.
The growth form is similar to the species though is not as vigorous.
Diagnosis:
The buds are an apple green and the inflorescences open to
creamy white.
Other notes:
White waratahs have been recorded in the past, one of the most
notable being a plant which grew in a private garden in the Colo area in
the 1950's. Cutting material of this plant was not made available and the
plant subsequently died without being propagated. The original plant of T.
speciosissima 'Wirrimbirra White' is in an area that has suffered fires of
varying intensity and is therefore vunerable to complete loss. The plant is
in poor condition (1985) with a few stems arising from the lignotuber
reaching 2.5 to 3m tall. White forms of the waratah have been known before
these two plants and an interesting Aboriginal account for their colour is
given in "Gulpilil's Stories of the Dreamtime" compiled by Hugh Rule and
Stuart Goodman, pages 108 to 115. The cultivar is drought and frost hardy
though seems somewhat more prone to bud-boring insects than most waratahs
in Canberra. The cultivar must be grown by vegetative means to preserve the
cultivar form. The method of using leaf buds for propagation by Ellyard and
Butler as outlined in the "Australian Horticulture" 83(3), p27-31 works
well with this cultivar.
Telopea speciosissima 'Corroboree'
This cultivar reaches an annual height of 1.5m. Its mature
height is unknown as it is pruned regularly for cut flowers. The shrubs are
maintained at a width of 1.5m.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar has very compact inflorescences measuring ca.
120mm high by 120mm wide. It is a form that has been selected because of
the marketable qualities of its flowers.
Grevillea 'Little Jessie'
A dense, grey-green, shrub 2-4 m high 2-4 m wide. Branchlets ascending, angular in cross-section, ribbed, slender, densely white silky-tomentose with brownish-green striations. Leaves 2.5-3.2 cm long, 1.8-2.4 cm wide, obovate, trisect ; leaf lobes 3, slightly pungent, grey-green; texture leathery. Conflorescence terminal or subterminal, mainly on the upper parts of the branch. Flowers: perianth 8.5 mm long, 2.2 mm
wide, pistil 30 mm long, style 27-28 mm long. Flower colour: buds grey-green, perianth pale-pink outside, the upper tepals deep red inside; limb creamy-yellow; style and style-end red; pollen-presenter yellowish;
overall effect is apricot-pink . Flowering occurs from July through to January. Infertile.
Diagnosis:
G. asparagoides differs in its open, cylindrical inflorescences with glandular hairs.
Similar hybrids:
Grevillea ‘Winpara Gold’.
G. ‘Winpara Gold has leaves twice-divided, perianths glabrous on the outside, hairy on the inside and yellow styles.
Callistemon 'Tin-Sal Glow'
Fairly open habit, 1.5 m wide by 3-5 m tall, many-stemmed with
a swollen base. Bark light grey, fissured. New growth pink. Spike
moderately open, c. 3.5 cm wide; axis hairy at first. Leaves narrowly
linear to oblanceolate, (3.0-) 3.5-5.5 cm long, c.0.32-0.77 cm wide,
margins slightly recurved (on herbarium specimens at least); reticulate
venation clearly visible. Stamens c. 4.8-5.4 cm, c. 1.5-2.1 cm long,
pinkish at the tips, almost white at the base. Anthers yellow. Fruit is
barrel-shaped ca 0.38-0.45 cm wide, ca 0.4 cm high, aperture not
constricted, surface smooth. Flowering time spring to autumn.
Diagnosis:
Characterised by the 'glowing' appearance of the new growth and
flower spikes (produced by the pale stamen bases). Its characteristics
compared to other forms are summarised in the following table:
C. 'Glasshouse Country'
C. recurvus
C. salignus
More red colouration in the flower
Paler flower colour
Flower colour
Shorter flower spikes: (c. 3.3-5.5cm not 5.0-5.5 (-7.0)cm)
Fewer flowers in spike
-
Pinkish, not silvery green, new growth
Paler leaf colour
Smaller leaves
-
Mostly longer leaves
-
-
More spreading habit
Shorter habit
Grevillea 'Winpara Gem'
This cultivar is a dense shrub to 2m tall by up to 3m wide.
The leaves are grey green and deeply divided (almost to the midrib) and are
up to 6cm long. The leaf edges are rolled under. The venation under the
leaf is particularly prominent. Each leaf lobe has a short but pungent tip.
The upper surface of the leaf has scattered silky hairs while the lower
surface other than the veins is closely covered with a dense mat of closely
appressed silky hairs. The branchlets are also covered by fine hairs that
diminish as the wood matures. The flowers are in racemes ca. 25mm long
produced terminally on short lateral branchlets arising from the older
wood. This sometimes leads to the flowers being partially obscured by
younger growth. Individual flowers are densely packed on each raceme. The
perianth is dark in colour, but appears lighter due to the dense covering
of fine white hairs. The perianth is 7-8mm long and splits into four
segments. The reddish style is hooked when it first emerges but soon
straightens, measuring ca. 14mm long. Flowers are produced from April to
mid October.
Diagnosis:
G. olivacea:
5m tall and spreading. Leaves up to 70mm long x 20mm wide;
oblanceolate with an emarginate apex; short, very scattered silky hairs on
the upper surface but appearing glabrous; densely silky hairy on the upper
surface. Flowers in small compact racemes on older wood; racemes short and
rounded; perianth pale on the outside due to the dense coating of silky
hairs; inside perianth glabrous; style glabrous and red; flowers
winter/spring.
Grevillea 'Winpara Gem':
2m tall by up to 3m wide. Leaves up to 60mm long x
35mm wide at the widest point; regularly pinnatisect; lobes linear; lobes
1-2mm broad; scattered fine silky hairs above; moderately dense silky hairs
below. flowers in 25mm long racemes terminally on short branchlets arising
from older wood; racemes straight; perianth appears pale on outer surface
due to dense silky hairs; inside of perianth glabrous; style glabrous and
red; flowers April to mid October.
G. thelemanniana:
can vary in height but usually .3-1.2m tall by 2-3m wide.
Leaves from 15-50mm long by ca. 20mm wide; from 3 lobed to pinnatisect;
lobes linear; lobes 1-5mm broad; covered in fine silky hairs. Flowers in
50mm long racemes terminally on newer wood; racemes reflexed; perianth
glabrous on the outer surface; inside of perianth densely hairy; style
glabrous and scarlet; flowers May to September.
The leaves more closely resemble G. thelemanniana but are not as much
divided. Racemes are also similar but shorter in Grevillea 'Winpara Gem'.
Callistemon viminalis 'Rose Opal'
Callistemon 'Rose Opal' is a dwarf and compact form of C.
viminalis growing to 1.5 - 1.8m high by 1m wide. The inflorescence is rosy
red which readily distinguishes the cultivar from the usual coloured forms
of C. viminalis. The inflorescence is 70-80mm long. Flowering is in spring
and autumn.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is distinguished from the other forms of C.
viminalis by its compact habit and flower colour.
Other notes:
The small and compact habit of this cultivar is of great value
for smaller gardens. In nearly twenty years of trials it has proved to be
stable in colour, form and height. The cultivar is frost tolerant to at
least -5?C and is drought hardy once established. Specimens have also been
lodged at the Queensland Herbarium (BRI 153960, BRI 279024). This cultivar
must be propagated by vegetative means to preserve the cultivar form.