Bauera rubioides 'Luina Gem'
This cultivar grows to 1m tall by 0.25 - 0.5m wide. The plant
is said to be very dense. The flowers are up to 10mm in diameter and are
pale pink in colour. The flowering season is November in Tasmania.
Diagnosis:
B. 'Luina Gem' has doubled flowers. Other morphological features
are as for B. rubioides.
Correa 'Benara Bell'
Erect spreading small shrub to c. 1.0 m x 2 m with a
moderately dense habit. Branchlets finely tomentose with white and
rust-coloured stellate hairs becoming green and sub glabrous with clusters
of stellate hairs. Simple leaves cordate to elliptical, 20 mm x 15 mm. Leaf
tips slightly acute to obtuse, leaf bases cordate, venation reticulate,
margins slightly recurved. Upper surfaces of mature leaves dark green and
coriaceous. Upper surfaces of young leaves minutely tomentose with white
and rust-coloured stellate hairs. Lower surfaces pale green tomentose with
minute white and rust-coloured stellate hairs. Corolla cylindrical 20 mm x
6 mm pale cream with a pink blush shading to green at the tips. Peak
flowering is from May to August in most districts with spasmodic flowering
throughout the year.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is differentiated from Correa alba var. alba by
the non-splitting corolla tube and length of flower as well as the shape
and tomentum of the leaves. Correa 'Marion's Marvel' has larger flowers (23
mm x 10 mm) that are dominantly pink in colour grading to pale green tips.
Although similar in flower colour to C. 'Ivory Bells', it is differentiated
from that cultivar by leaf size. C. 'Ivory Bells' has much larger leaves
(33 mm x 21 mm) than C. 'Benara Bell' although leaf shape and tomentum are
similar. It is almost identical to C. 'Beek's Beauty' which originated in
the garden of Marianne Beek in Naracoorte. Correa 'Beek's Beauty' is not
widely grown and is unlikely to be presented for registration. The form
being registered is that which arose spontaneously in Phillip Dowling's
garden (Benara Road Nursery).
Babingtonia pluriflora 'White Cascade'
This cultivar is a low spreading shrub to 0.5 metres tall by
up to 1.5 metres wide. The branchlets are pendulous and the new growth is
an attractive coppery colour. The flowers are borne in the summer and
autumn months.
Diagnosis:
Baeckea 'Wirreanda White Cascade' was selected initially because
of its different flowering time and pendulous flowers. The fact that it
flowers in autumn as well as summer was noted after the original selection.
There are other forms of Baeckea virgata already registered as cultivars
B. 'Howie's Sweet Midget' being a smaller cultivar with a more compact
habit and much smaller and finer foliage. B. 'Howie's Feathertips' also has
finer foliage but grows to a similar size than B. 'Wirreanda White
Cascade'. The latter also flowers in autumn different from the former two
cultivars.
Grevillea 'Canberra Gem'
An erect, moderately dense shrub to 2.5m high, with slender
ascending branches; leaves 15-30mm long and .5-1mm broad, plus/minus
diameter under the limb dilating to plus/minus 3mm diameter below the
middle, with scattered, appressed hairs, limb obtuse plus/minus 2mm
diameter, with moderately dense appressed silky hairs; ovary on stipe 1mm
long, glabrous; style 12-15mm long glabrous.
Diagnosis:
Grevillea 'Canberra Gem' differs from G. rosmarinifolia a. cunn.
sens. lat. chiefly in its silky hairy perianth, its narrower less dilated,
less strongly curved perianth tube and in its stipate ovary. From G.
juniperina R. Br. it differs chiefly in its relatively shorter perianth
tube, more dilated below the middle, broader and more strongly curved
above, and in its shorter ovary stipe, plus/minus 1mm not plus/minus 4mm.
Comparators:
G. rosmarinifolia sens. lat., cultivated in dry sand
on hillside, Brighton le Sands, New South Wales, P Coucher, 13 July 1973
(CBG 020246).
Grevillea 'Poorinda Peter'
This cultivar is a large spreading shrub growing to a height
of about 3 metres by 3-4 metres wide. The leaves are very deeply lobed,
occasionally with secondary lobes. The individual lobes are pungent, and
15mm by 4-5mm wide. The upper leaf surface is smooth and shiny whilst the
underside is covered with dense silvery hairs. The leaf edges are rolled
under. The new foliage has purple to bronze tonings. The flowers are of the
toothbrush type and are borne terminally in the upper leaf axils. The
perianth is about 10mm long and is covered with dense hairs. These hairs
mask its deep purple colour. The reddish purple style is about 20mm long.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar differs from G. acanthifolia in that each lobe is
usually entire compared with the usually sub-divided lobes of G.
acanthifolia. The leaves are different from G. longifolia in that they are
much more deeply lobed.
Note:
Upon further continuing close examination of specimens growing at the
Australian National Botanic Gardens it has been found that not all
specimens have dense silvery hairs on the underside of the leaves. It
appears that this characteristic can vary slightly between specimens in
different situations. For this reason this characteristic should not have
too great an emphasis placed upon it when determining this cultivar.
Grevillea 'Poorinda Royal Carpet'
It is a prostrate plant with long stems spreading up to 6m.
The leaves vary from entire to lobed and have pointed tips. The entire
leaves are between 60-70mm long by about 20mm wide. The lobed leaves are
about 80mm long and about 25mm wide across the lobes. The upper surface is
smooth and dark green while the underside is grey with a dense covering of
silky hairs. The flowers are of the "toothbrush" type and are borne in the
leaf axils. The 10mm long perianths are maroon, while the prominent red
styles are 25mm long and have a yellow-green stigma.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar differs from its stated parents in leaf shape and
in comparison with Grevillea willisii, in flower colour. The leaves vary
from Grevillea laurifolia in that some are lobed. The entire leaves are
similar. The lobed leaves of this cultivar are very much less lobed than
those of Grevillea willisii. Grevillea 'Poorinda Royal Carpet' has maroon
flowers compared with cream for Grevillea willisii. Flower colour is not
significantly different between Grevillea laurifolia and Grevillea
'Poorinda Royal Carpet'.
Eremophila 'BERYLS BLUE'
E. ‘Beryl’s Blue’ is a compact rounded shrub approximately 1.5 metres in diameter. It has short leaves and pale blue flowers which occur from September to November.
Diagnosis:
E. ‘Beryl’s Blue’ may well be a hybrid between E. nivea and E. caerulea. E. ‘Beryl’s Blue’ is most like E. nivea, however its leaves are shorter, stiffer and curl over, flowers are much paler blue and it has a
more compact habit than E. nivea.
Eremophila 'Spitfire'
Dense upright shrub, 1.8m x 1m, large tubular red flowers.
Rationale for selection:
Eremophila maculata has similar roundish leaves and red to pink flowers while Eremophila splendens has large and hairy leaves has orange flowers.
Eremophila 'Crazy Gal'
A shrub to 1.5m high by 2m wide with greenish leaves 15-25mm long by 5-8mm wide; medium sized corolla is red with an orange throat. Flowers in spring or after new growth.
Grevillea 'Poorinda Royal Mantle'
The leaves vary from entire to lobes. The entire leaves
measure up to 90mm long by about 20mm wide. The lobed leaves are about
100mm long and about 40mm wide across their widest point. New growth is
densely covered with silky hairs on both sides of the leaves. As the leaves
mature they lose their hairs on the upper surface whilst retaining those on
the underside. The new foliage is coppery red in colour and most
attractive. The flowers are of the "toothbrush" type and are borne
terminally on short branchlets and occasionally on the main stems opposite
the leaves. The perianth is dark red and about 10mm long and the styles
about 25mm long.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from G. laurifolia in that most
leaves are lobed and is different form G. willisii in that the cultivar is
prostrate.