Grevillea 'Lawson Queen'
Open shrub, 1m (h) x 1m (w)
Flowers:
Deep pink
Foliage colour:
Dark Green
Comparators:
Grevillea sericea, G. oleoides
Reasons for distinctiveness:
Thought to be a Grevillea sericea hybrid,
possibly with G. oleoides which also occurs in the area. The differences
are in the deepness of the pink in the flower colour and the leaf
characteristics. The very best-coloured G. sericea comes nowhere near it.
The leaves are much wider than G. sericea. The leaf is a much darker green
than G. sericea. Grevillea sericea can be quite variable in leaf, and for a
while it was thought it could possibly be a new species however it does not
set seed suggesting it may be sterile hybrid.
It has been in the applicant's garden since it was first collected.
Grevillea 'Yellow Devil'
Habit/description: Groundcover Size: 0.1m H x 1-1.5m W Flower colour:Pale yellow Flower size: ca. 35mm; conflorescence 78mm Flowering time:Aug-Nov Frost hardiness: High In cultivation since: 2004
Where has it been tested? Stawell Victoria
Distinguished from G. 'Thorny Devil' by its pale
yellow flowers and slightly smaller leaves
Grevillea 'Yellow Devil'
Habit/description: Groundcover Size: 0.1m H x 1-1.5m W Flower colour:Pale yellow Flower size: ca. 35mm; conflorescence 78mm Flowering time:Aug-Nov Frost hardiness: High In cultivation since: 2004
Where has it been tested? Stawell Victoria
Distinguished from G. 'Thorny Devil' by its pale
yellow flowers and slightly smaller leaves
Citrus australasica 'Byron Sunrise'
Very narrow upright tall shrub or small tree to a maximum of 2
metres high by 600mm wide. Delicate small rounded leaves. Flowers white
(with pink buds) approximately 10-15mm in diameter in October. Fruit a
cylindrical berry, 40-80 mms long, 15-25mm in diameter, mottled green/brown
to black when fully ripe with clean smooth skin. Flesh is tangerine/red.
Note:
the flesh/vescicles becomes darker when exposed to air for several
hours.
Diagnosis:
C . ‘Byron Sunrise’is a medium sized selection with a clean
smooth skin and a distinctive tangerine/red coloured flesh.
Grevillea 'Thorny Devil'
Groundcover
Size: 0.2m H x 1-2m W Flower colour:Orange Flower size: 35mm; conflorescence 100mm
Flowering time: Jul-Nov
Distinguished from G. nana ssp nana by its smaller
leaves with more numerous closely aligned pinnae and its pinky orange
flowers. Distinguished from G. tenuiloba by its coarser leaves, denser
prostrate habit and pink-orange flowers
Comparators:
G. nana ssp nana, G. tenuiloba
Habit/description:
Frost hardiness:
High
In cultivation since:
1996
Where has it been tested? Victoria and NSW
Xerochrysum bracteatum 'Princess of Wales'
This cultivar grows into a compact, dense shrub 0.6m tall by
0.6m wide. The leaves are mostly glabrous though the midrib is covered with
a fine mantle of silky hairs. Some scattered silky hairs occur also along
the leaf margins. The younger stems are covered in a dense coat of similar
silky hairs which diminish as the stems become older. The leaves average
between 5 and 9cm in length. The flower heads average 5 to 1.5cm long while
the rays of the inner bracts average 1 to 1.5cm long. Both are a rich gold
in colour. The stigmas are orange colour when they emerge. The flowers are
on long stems that emerge well above the foliage. The flowering season in
Canberra is from October to April but occasional flowers may be found all
year round. The flowering period should not be markedly different in other
parts of Australia.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar may be distinguished from the presumed parent
forms by the following features. The cultivar has the perennial habit of
Xerochrysum 'Dargan Hill Monarch' but lacks the greyish appearance provided
by the fine silky hairs. This perennial habit differs from the annual habit
of the other presumed parent form. The main distinguishing characteristic
is in the cultivar's flowering habit. As flowers die the stem withers and
the whole flower stem and dead flowerheads disappear into the lower foliage
of the plant. At the same time new growth emerges from lower on the plant
and extends above the foliage again. These new stems then bear new
inflorescences. The cultivar is also very free flowering.
Other notes:
The free flowering habit together with the growth habit of
"hiding" the spent flower heads make this a very desirable plant for
cultivation. The cultivar is named in honour of her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales on the occasion of her visit to the Australian National
Botanic Gardens on 7 November 1985. The cultivar is frost hardy and
moderately drought hardy. The cultivar must be propagated by vegetative
means to preserve the cultivar form.
Grevillea 'Poorinda Blondie'
It is a large shrub growing to a height of about 4m by 5m
wide. The leaves are long and narrow and very deeply lobed. Each lobe is
pungent. The average number of lobes per leaf on the specimen examined is
14. The leaves are about 120mm long and up to 40mm wide across the lobes.
Occasionally entire leaves are produced. New foliage exhibits an attractive
bronze colour whilst older foliage is dark green on the upper surface and
grey on the underside with a dense covering of silky hairs. The flowers are
of the "toothbrush" type and are borne terminally on short branchlets. The
perianth is about 8mm long and is covered with dense hairs. The prominent
yellow styles are about 20mm long.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from its stated parent in leaf shape
and colour of styles. Grevillea 'Poorinda Blondie' has wider, about 4mm and
shorter, about 10mm, lobes than Grevillea hookeriana, which had on the
specimen examined, lobes 2mm wide and up to 40mm long. This cultivar has
yellow styles compared with red for Grevillea hookeriana. Grevillea
'Poorinda Blondie' is different from Grevillea 'Poorinda Beulah' in number
of lobes per leaf and colour of styles. This cultivar has an average of 14
lobes per leaf compared with a average of 3 for Grevillea 'Poorinda Beulah'
and has yellow styles compared with pink for Grevillea 'Poorinda Beulah'.
The perianth colour is the same.
Anigozanthos 'Sue Dixon'
The flowering stems reach 75cm tall, slightly woolly towards
the base and becoming more dense towards the top. Flowers are in a simple
terminal raceme, on pedicels up to 12mm long. The dense plumose wool on the
flowers is red on the ovary and pedicel becoming more yellow immediately
above. Perianth tube to ca. 4.5 cm long, scabrous inside, hairs becoming
more linear towards the base, with stellate tips immediately above the
ovary. Lobes to 1.3cm long, plumose woolly inside, the hairs sometime
purple. Anthers linear, slightly longer than filaments, the connective
tipped with a small gland-like appendage. Ovules ca. 6 per locule. The
flowering season is from October to November.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar differs from A. manglesii in having shorter
corolla lobes which are not as reflexed as those in A. manglesii. The
corolla tube is round at the end (flat in A. manglesii and the greenish
yellow anthers (green in A. manglesii) form a part circle (flat in A.
manglesii). The leaves are almost evergreen and similar in colour to A.
flavidus. The cultivar differs from A. rufus in having a broader and longer
corolla tube and bigger lobes. There is less branching on the flower stem
and fewer flowers on the branches. The colour of the flower is two-toned ie
changes at the base of the corolla tube (in A. rufus it is the same right
through to the flower stem). This differs from A. flavidus in having a
shorter flower stem and less branching on the stem. The corolla tube is
broader and slightly longer than in A. flavidus, and the corolla lobes are
reflexed right back. Anthers are greenish yellow (orange in A. flavidus)
and bigger with longer filaments.