Callistemon 'Shannon'
This is a moderately open, medium to large shrub with a
columnar growth habit which grows to approximately 2-3 metres high by 1-2
metres wide. Foliage is bright green and is particularly attractive with a
soft appearance. The bottle brush flowers form in small tight clusters from
October to November. Individual flowers are crimson and are 100mm long and
50mm in diameter.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar may be a C. viminalis hybrid. The large crimson
flowers and unusually soft appearance of the foliage creates a distinct
effect in comparison with other Callistemon cultivars.
Ceratopetalum gummiferum 'Johanna's Christmas'
This cultivar is a dwarf form of Ceratopetalum gummiferum. It is a small,dense shrub ca. 1m tall x 1m wide. The white flowers appear between October and January and as they die off, the calyx of each flower turns red.
DIAGNOSIS: As for C. gummiferum except for its dwarf habit (1m x 1m).
Ceratopetalum gummiferum 'White Christmas'
Diagnosis:
C. 'White Christmas' is only different from other known forms of C. gummiferum in that the calyx lobes do not exhibit the usual pink to red colouring. The calyx lobes remain white to green in colour throughout the
flowering and seed developing period. Habit is also identical to other known forms of C. gummiferum.
Ceratopetalum gummiferum 'Magenta Star'
This cultivar is a shrub to 3.5m tall by 3m wide. The new
growth is a dark magenta-purple which gradually fades as the leaves age.
The undersides of the leaves are a darker colour than the upper surfaces,
and the leaf margins hold the colouration even when the leaf ages. The
midveins of the leaves are a prominent red when the leaves are young and
these change to a prominent greenish-yellow as the leaves age.
Diagnosis:
The purplish appearance of the new growth is the most
distinctive feature of this cultivar; in usual forms it is green.
Chamelaucium uncinatum 'Newmarracarra'
The cultivar is a robust shrub, growing vigorously to 2m tall
with a spread of 2-3m. The newer stems are tinged pink, and the leaves are
long, being between 30-40mm in length. This cultivar is an early flowering
variety with large, full petals. The flower is rose pink with dark centres,
though flower colour varies from when a flower has freshly opened to when
it starts to wither with age. Thbe flower colour is blotched on the older
flowers. The flowers measure ca. 22mm in diameter.
DIAGNOSIS:
Correa 'Snowbelle'
Correa ‘Snowbelle’ is a small to medium spreading shrub which will grow to approximately 1 metre high x 1.5 metres across. It has bell-shaped white flowers which occur over a long period from autumn to spring.
Chamelaucium uncinatum 'Munns'
This cultivar is of average vigour and has an erect habit. The
leaves are ca. 20-25mm long and much narrower than is normal for the
species. The flowers are ca. 20mm in diameter with a dark centre and a dark
pink edge on the petals. This cultivar flowers from August to November in
Western Australia and is the latest variety to flower.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar can be distinguished because of its narrower
foliage and the flower colour.
Grevillea 'Spider Mist'
Compact shrub, 2.0m (h) x 2.0m (w)
Flowers:
Perianth: Red; stamens: yellow; conflorescence 40mm x 60mm; from
July-Sept
Foliage colour:
Grey/green
Comparators:
Grevillea arenaria, Grevillea ‘Fireworks’
Reasons for distinctiveness:
Grevillea ‘Spider Mist’ is a medium compact
shrub with leaves and form similar to G. arenaria but the flowers are more
like those of G. ‘Fireworks’. Grevillea ‘Fireworks’ is a small upright
shrub to one metre.
Correa 'Ian Fardon'
Large spreading dense shrub with upright habit to 1.5 m x 2 m.
It has long ascendant stems. Leaves are on short petioles, dark green,
lanceolate, shiny, glabrous, leathery and convex on top, pale green and
velvety with tiny rusty stellate hairs underneath and having obtuse tips.
28 mm x 8 mm in size. It has the typical aromatic smell of leaves in the C.
glabra group. The ends of young branches are rusty tomentose. Flowers on
short pedicels occur singly at the ends of short branchlets. The pedicels
also have a pair of deciduous bracts. The corolla, which is 2.2 cm x 0.8 cm
in size, is reddish pink with mid green tips and a band of purplish green
in between. The tips are barely recurved. Stamens are exerted. The calyx is
green and cup-shaped with minute teeth. The calyx folds over maturing seed.
Peak flowering is from Summer to Winter with spasmodic flowering most of
year.
Diagnosis:
It appears to be a garden hybrid with C. glabra var turnbullii
and C. reflexa as possible parents. This variety differs from C. glabra var
turnbullii, in that the leaves are smaller and narrower and have some rusty
tomentum on the underside. The flowers appear to be longer and have a band
of a third colour on the corolla. It still has the characteristic aromatic
smell of C. glabra varieties and the flower colour is similar to other C.
glabra var turnbullii forms.
Hardenbergia violaceae 'Mystic Marvel'
a ground cover or climber with bicoloured mauve/white fls in spring