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 'Granya Glory'
This cultivar has larger and broader leaves than either parent
and the normally grey/green foliage has an attractive plum/green colour for
several months. The inflorescences and individual flowers are larger and
showier than either parent. It grows to 0.4 by 1.0m and is a medium dense
shrub. Flowers August to February. The inflorescences are approx. 4 by 4cm
and are rose red and cream.
Diagnosis:
Larger and broader leaves and larger inflorescences than either
of its parents.
Grevillea 'Tyalge Glow'
This cultivar grows to a shrub 1.3m X 1m. Leaves are
approximately 25mm long and 5mm wide with a sharp tip, thickened recurved
margins, glabrous above except for young leaves which have some silky hairs
at the base and with a covering of appressed silky hairs below; the stems
are grey hairy; the flowers are in spider like racemes approximately 60mm
across, terminal on short branches; the perianth is red covered with white
and pale brown hairs on the outside, silky hairy within; pedicels are
covered with brown hairs; the perianth segments are recurved; the style is
approximately 30mm long, dark red, glabrous.
Diagnosis:
Grevillea speciosa:
Shrub 1-3m tall X 1-2.5m wide; leaves 10-50mm X 8mm on
a short petiole becoming glabrous above, silky hairy below, apex with a
small point; racemes to 70mm across, flowers pink to deep red, hairy
outside, segments recurved, style to 30mm long, pink to deep red in colour;
main flowering time is winter and spring.
Grevillea 'Tyalge Glow':
Shrub 1.3m X 1m; leaves 25mm X 5mm, on a short
petiole, becoming glabrous above, silky hairy below, apex with a pungent
point; racemes to 60mm across, flowers red, hairy outside, segments
recurved; style to 30mm long, deep red in colour; flowering time is winter
and spring.
Grevillea 'Poorinda Firebird':
Shrub 2-3m X 2-4m; leaves 30mm X 2-4mm,
sessile, young growth silky hairy above, silky hairy below, apex with a
pungent point; racemes to 40mm across; flowers scarlet, hairy outside,
segments recurved; style 25mm long, scarlet in colour; flowering time is
winter to summer.
Grevillea 'Sid Reynolds'
A dense, rounded shrub 2-2.5m high and wide with dull
grey-brown bark on trunk and branches, branchlets with an appressed silvery
indumentum. Leaves entire, linear-lanceolate 40-67mm long, 2-3mm wide,
margins shortly revolute. Upper surface glabrous green, lower surface with
a fine appressed silvery indumentum. Venation not prominent except for
midvein, particularly on lower surface. Flowers in erect on occasionally
decurved terminal inflorescences, on short lateral branchlets or
occasionally axillary, within the foliage; simple or occasionally branched,
c. 3cm long, 5cm wide. Floral branches covered in matted white hairs.
Perianth with scattered appressed white hairs outside, glabrous inside
except for a dense heard just before the curve of the limb; 7-8mm long,
2-3mm wide. Pistil 23-26mm long, glabrous, stipe 4-5mm long,
pollen-presenter lateral.
Diagnosis:
Characterised by the large, dense rounded habit, and profuse
pale red and pink flowers with a yellow limb. Differs from the parent G.
pinaster in its larger, more robust habit, its longer and broader leaves
(to 67mm long x 3mm wide) and its far more profuse and larger
inflorescences. (Other parent uncertain but possibly G. commutata.)
Grevillea 'Winter Sparkles'
A tall, moderately dense, pyramidal shrub 5-6 m tall and 2-2.5 m wide, usually with one main erect stem. Bark grey, branchlets grey to silver grey with appressed fine silky hairs. Leaves deeply pinnate (14-)20-25 cm long, (7-)11-18 cm wide with linear lobes (5-) 10-15 cm long.
Upper surface glabrous, green, lower surface silvery white due to fine silky appressed white hairs. Venation inconspicuous except for mid-vein.
Flowers June - September in erect terminal secund inflorescences, becoming sub-cylindrical at anthesis; 12-15 cm long, 4-6 cm wide. Floral rachis covered with a moderately dense indumentum of short, spreading white hairs.
Bracts linear to lanceolate, noticeable orange-yellow on inner surface, deciduous at anthesis. Perianth with an open matted indumentum outside and glabrous inside, 5 mm long, 4 mm wide. Pistil 27mm long, ovary sessile, densely hairy with appressed long silky white hairs, style glabrous, pollen presenter slightly lateral, stigma prominent.
Diagnosis:
Grevillea 'Winter Sparkles' has denser foliage than G. pteridifolia and G. 'Honey Gem' , and is taller than G. banksii. The flower colour is slightly more orange than G. 'Sandra Gordon'.