Correa reflexa var. speciosa 'Portland Belle'
Small, dense shrub 50cm in diameter. Flowers colour carmine red with green tips and white throat, ca. 3cm long by 4cm wide from April to August in Victoria.
May be a hybrid between Correa reflexa var. speciosa and C. alba var. alba with distinctive characteristic of the flower splitting.
Correa 'Cappuccino'
Medium-sized upright shrub with modrately dense foliage and
long internodes. Mature leaves opposite, 33 mm x 18 mm, obcordate, apex
obtuse, margin slightly irregular, dark glossy green and glabrous on top,
visible oil glands and scattered stellate hairs on the margins. Underside
of leaves paler green, with scattered dark stellate hairs. Petiole 5mm,
light green, thickly covered with dark stellate hairs. Calyx 4 mm x 5 mm,
pale green coloured, square shaped, 4 minute calyx teeth present, covered
with numerous tiny stellate hairs. Pedicel 6mm similar to calyx. Corolla 35
mm x 8 mm (just above petal split), pale coffee colour changing to pale
pink as the flower ages. Corolla covered with numerous small stellate
hairs. Corolla throat very pale green changing to very pale pink, almost
white, glabrous. Stamens 8, slightly exerted from the corolla, 38 mm long,
white, widened towards the base. Anther yellow, 2 mm long. Style 34 mm
long, filament very fine and white. Flowering from January onwards.
Prolific in flower and flowers well displayed.
Diagnosis:
Parentage unknown but possible parents may be C. glabra
‘Inglewood Gold’ and C. pulchella. This hybrid differs from C. glabra ‘
Inglewood Gold ’ which has a shorter corolla and the flower colour is
green-gold. Leaves of C. 'Inglewood Gold' are shorter and narrower. Differs
from C. pulchella which has a shorter corolla, a darker pink or orange
flower colour and no calyx teeth. Leaves are shorter, narrower and cordate
with almost acute tips.
Correa 'Marianne'
Upright medium-sized shrub to approximately 1.5 m x 1.5 m with
a moderately open habit. Branchlets sparsely tomentose with tan-coloured
stellate hairs becoming brown and glabrous with age. Long internodes up to
48 mm add to the openness of the foliage. Simple elliptical leaves, 27 mm x
13 mm, petioles to 6 mm. Leaf apices acute, leaf bases oblique, venation
reticulate, margins entire.Upper surfaces of mature leaves dark green and
glabrous with defined pits (oil glands). Lower surfaces of mature leaves
pale green and glabrous with occasional scattered white stellate hairs.
Upper surfaces of young leaves mid green, glabrous with scattered white and
tan stellate hairs becoming rust-coloured and more concentrated at margins.
Lower surfaces of young leaves covered in dense tomentum of rust-coloured
stellate hairs. Calyx hemispherical, apiculate, densely tomentose, pedicels
tomentose up to 5 mm with tiny tomentose bracts at base of pedicel. Corolla
cylindrical 20 mm x 7 mm, dull rose pink with a fine tomentum of rose
coloured stellate hairs grading to almost transparent on the dull green
tips. Tips of corolla not reflexed. Stamens markedly exserted 4 x 10 mm and
4 x 5 mm. Style longer than stamens 17 mm from margin of corolla. Anthers
oblong spathulate, yellow-green, margins recurved. Flowering from October
onwards in most districts and sporadic throughout the year.
Diagnosis:
This correa hybrid differs from all varieties of C. lawrenceana
and from C. baeuerlenii. The leaves are closest in size to C. lawrenceana
var. grampiana but the leaf tips differ. Leaf tips are acute as for C.
baeuerlenii. The calyx of C. 'Marianne' has four distinct lobes similar to
C. lawrenceana var glandulifera but is not as bulbous and is larger and is
nothing like the distinctive calyx of C. baeuerlenii. Flower colour is pink
and green. The only C. lawrenceana varieties which have red flowers are C.
lawrenceana var. rosea and C. lawrenceana var. cordifolia. C. baeuerlenii
has green flowers so the flower colour must come from the C. lawrenceana
parent.
Correa 'Kiss Me Kate'
Compact low-growing, small plant. Mature leaves opposite, 16mm
x 15 mm, cordate, apex obtuse, margin wavy, dark glossy green and glabrous
on top, visible oil glands and scattered stellate hairs on the margins.
Underside of leaves paler green, with scattered dark stellate hairs.
Petiole 3mm, light green, covered with dark stellate hairs. Calyx 4 mm x 7
mm, tan coloured, square shaped, no calyx teeth present, covered with
numerous small stellate hairs. Pedicel 4mm similar to calyx. Corolla 24 mm
x 10 mm (just above petal split), rose pink colour covered with numerous
small stellate hairs. Corolla throat paler pink, glabrous. Stamens 8,
exerted from the corolla, 26 mm long, white, widened towards the base.
Anther dark coloured, 1.5 mm long. Style 27 mm long, filament very fine and
white. Flowering from January onwards with a peak flowering in March/April.
Diagnosis:
Thought to be a hybrid between C. ‘Federation Belle’ and C.
‘Dusky Bells’. This hybrid differs from C. ‘ Federation Belle ’ which has a
pink and cream flower colour and the pink is slightly more orange in C. ‘
Kiss-Me-Kate ’ . Leaves of C. ‘ Federation Belle ’ are larger with apices
more acute and the underside is paler green.
Differs from C. ‘ Dusky Bells ’ which has longer and narrower flowers and
the flowers are slightly darker pink. Calyx is green rather than tan and
leaves are longer, narrower and elliptical in shape.
RHS Colour Chart 1995:
Corolla: 58C Mature
Leaves: 137A/B
Correa 'Canberra Bells'
Correa ‘Canberra Bells’ is a small shrub which has red and cream bell shaped flowers which occur from late summer through to winter. The leaves are small rounded and olive green in colour.
‘Canberra Bells’ is the Australian plant chosen to celebrate the centenary of Canberra, 12th March 2013. Its masses of attractive flowers will be in full bloom for Canberra’s birthday each year.
Correa 'Isabell'
Correa ‘Isabell’ is a spreading shrub that will grow to approximately 75cm high x 1.5 metres across. It has grey/green leaves that contrast beautifully with the soft pink flowers. Flowering is during autumn and winter.
Correa 'Jezabell'
Correa ‘Jezabell’ is a small shrub growing to approximately one metre tall. It has dark green leaves and red bell-shaped flowers. The flowers occur during autumn and winter.
Crowea 'Poorinda Ecstasy'
This cultivar is a compact plant to 1m tall by 1m wide. The
foliage is light green in colour. The leaves are from 30 to 40mm long and 9
to 12mm wide, oblanceolate with a mucronate tip. The branches are angular
and very slightly winged. The flowers are pale pink and occur principally
from early summer to autumn. Occasional flowers occur at other times of the
year. The flowers which are from 25 to 25mm across have a short pedicel and
thus sit tightly in the leaf axils.
Diagnosis:
It is difficult to determine the origin of this putative hybrid
by examination of the cultivar. The cultivar resembles a broad-leaved form
of C. saligna which is believed to have come originally from Kariong near
Gosford, NSW and which saligna has the typical noticeable winged stems
right to the tips of the branches whereas Crowea 'Poorinda Ecstasy' does
not. The branches are angular in the cultivar, similar to those of C.
exalata, with a very slight "wing" lower on the stems. The cultivar differs
from Crowea 'Festival', a previously described hybrid Crowea, by its larger
leaves and its paler flower colour.
Crowea exalata 'Green Cape'
It is a prostrate plant reaching a height of about 150mm but
with a spread of about 800mm. The leaves are up to 20mm long by 3mm wide.
Oil glands are clearly visible on the underside of the leaves. The mauve
flowers are produced in the leaf axils on semi-mature growth. After
flowering the petals change colour to white then green. They remain green
and protect the seeds while they mature.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from known normal forms of Crowea
exalata in its prostrate habit. The usual height attained is 1-2m.
Crowea exalata 'Bindelong Compact'
This cultivar is a form of Crowea exalata. It is a compact
shrub with a height of about 0.5m and a width of about 1m. It is very
floriferous, producing deep pink flowers which darken to a deep purple with
age. The flowers and leaves are in the smaller size range of the species
with the flower diameter around 1.7cm and the leaves about 1.2cm long.
Diagnosis:
C. 'Bindelong Compact' is more compact than the usual form of
C. exalata which grows to more or less 1m high. It flowers throughout the
year with the main flowering from December to April. Other forms of C.
exalata are usually most prolific from March to May. Other features of this
cultivar are as for C. exalata.