Grevillea rosmarinifolia 'Rosy Posy'
This cultivar is a form of the dark green, fine leaved variety
of G. rosmarinifolia. It grows to ca. 1.5m tall by 1.5m wide. The leaves
are linear 30-45 mm long by 1mm wide and have a mucronate point. Leaves are
glabrous above and below with very occasional silky hairs on the mid-vein
of the leaf on the underside. The branchlets are covered with scattered
silky hairs. The flowers are ca. 20mm long. The perianth is a rosy pink
with a yellow tip. The style is a deep pink to red. The racemes are 40 to
50mm long and densely packed with flowers. Flowers can be found throughout
the year with the main flowering season being late winter to early spring.
Diagnosis:
G. rosmarinifolia varies greatly over its range. Grevillea
'Rosy Posy' is distinguished by its exceptionally large racemes of flowers.
Prostanthera lasianthos 'Mint-Ice'
The cultivar has the same general morphology as for the
species. It has grown to 2m x 1.5m since it was first selected in 1984. The
differences are that P. lasianthos 'Mint-Ice' has leaves with formal white
variegation around the borders of the leaves. The leaf blades are
irregularly variegated from pale green to white. The percentage of
variegation on each leaf also differs, with some being almost totally white
to just the leaf margin variegation. The plant is more compact than usual
and the leaves slightly smaller. No reversion of the variegation has been
noted in five years. The racemes of white flowers are more compact than
usual.
Diagnosis:
This plant is easily distinguished by the leaf variegation, with
the smaller than average leaves and more compact racemes being the
secondary considerations.
Chamelaucium uncinatum 'Bundara Mystic Pearl'
The habit of this cultivar is similar to normal Chamelaucium
uncinatum. The flowers are a pink mauve on opening fading to a very pale
pink.
Diagnosis:
A very robust shrub with a large number of the flowers borne on
the branch terminals. This cultivar was bred with the cut flower market in
mind and the first crop attained a 4.5kg cutting. This crop rate was
achieved at Bundara Nursery. The cultivar may be distinguished from other
similar colour forms of C. uncinatum by the heavier crop of flowers.
Correa alba var. alba 'Blush'
Erect medium sized shrub to c. 2m x 2m with a dense habit.
Branchlets finely tomentose with rust-coloured stellate hairs becoming
green and glabrous with occasional clusters of stellate hairs. Simple
leaves broad elliptic or sub-circular, 20 mm x 20 mm. Leaf tips slightly
emarginate, leaf bases oblique, venation reticulate, margins slightly
recurved. Upper surfaces of mature leaves dark green and coriaceous with
occasional minute hairs. Upper surfaces of young leaves minutely tomentose.
Corolla 10 mm x 10 mm with petals split to calyx, largely white around
margins with pale pink spreading along petal from throat. Peak flowering is
from April to June in most districts with spasmodic flowering throughout
the year.
Diagnosis:
The normal flower colour for C. alba var. alba is white. Various
forms with pink petals occur naturally in both Victoria and Tasmania. This
is one of the naturally occurring forms from Victoria. The descriptive name
'Blush' has been used to differentiate this plant from other C. alba var.
alba forms which have white petals. The size and habit of the plant
conforms to other C. alba var. alba forms.
Acacia cardiophylla 'Gold Lace'
Acacia ' Gold Lace' is a perennial shrub with a trailing
prostrate growth habit. Its flowering is observed to differ from the
standard A. cardiophylla form. Flowering occurs from August to mid
September, when the plants produce many mildly perfumed golden yellow
globular heads about 1cm in diameter in dense ancillary racemes 3-5cm,
long. The foliage of 'Kuranga Gold Lace' is typical A. cardiophylla and not
observed to differ from the standard form. The stems' prostrate growth
habit is the main characteristic distinguishing 'Kuranga Gold Lace' from
other A. cardiophylla. The stems of 'Kuranga Gold Lace' also differ from
those of the standard A. cardiophylla in becoming tortuous with age.
Diagnosis:
This variety is distinct from all other known varieties in
having the following combination of characters:
a prostrate trailing growth
habit (attaining little more then 20cm height) with stems becoming slightly
tortuous in age.
GROWTH HABIT
prostrate & trailing
erect & arching
All characteristics described and comparisions are from comparative growing
trials conducted at Wandin North, Victoria in 1989. Trials consisted of 25
plants 'Kuranga Gold Lace' grown from cuttings (potted January, 1989) with
25 plants grown from A. cardiophylla seed (sown August 1988 - potted
January 1989), all in 15cm pots outdoors. Potting mixture was 'Debco'
soilless mix. Measurements of 20 randomly selected plants were taken in
April, 94 days after potting. Four year old tub grown plants of the variety
were also measured.
Hardenbergia violacea 'Walpurple'
Late flowering selection from a spontaneous mutation from Hardenbergia violacea 'Happy Wanderer' with lighter coloured flowers borne in erect spikes above the foliage.
Grevillea juniperina 'Lunar Light'
This cultivar retains the prostrate habit of the parent plant
but is variegated, and the flowers are distinctly different in colour. The
leaf variegation varies from all yellow on the new growth to mature leaves
showing approximately 75% green and 25% variegation. The variegation is
around the margins of the leaves. The flowers tend towards orange suffused
with pink. Flowering starts in November.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is distinguished from the prostrate yellow
flowered form of G. juniperina by the variegated leaves and orange pink
flowers.
Grevillea rosmarinifolia 'Lime-Light'
It is an erect, sparse shrub growing to a height of up to 3m
by 2.5m wide.The leaves are up to 20mm long by about 1mm wide.The leaf
edges are tightly recurved. The flowers are borne in small clusters at the
ends of short branches. Individual flowers are lime green and about 7mm
long and the styles are 17mm long . The main flowering period is from April
to September.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from other known forms of
G.rosmarinifolia in its erect, sparse habit of growth and lime green
flowers. It is outstanding in its production of masses of lime green
flowers during the winter months. It is different from G. rosmarinifolia
'Lara Dwarf' in its erect habit and lime green flowers. G.rosmarinifolia
'Lara Dwarf' is prostrate and has creamy white, blushed pink flowers.
Notes:
Grevillea 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'
Note:
Originally Grevillea 'Austraflora MK.2'
This cultivar is a moderately dense shrub to 60cms tall by ca.
1m wide. The branches are reasonably erect off the main stem but arch
further down their length. The leaves are lanceolate and are between 2 and
3cm long by 1 to 3mm wide and darker on the upper surface. The margins are
rolled under. The leaves terminate with a short, recurved mucronate tip and
are covered with sparse silky hairs both above and below. The new foliage
and branchlets are densely covered with brownish hairs. The flowers are
found in terminal racemes on the branchlets. They are orange red at the
base of the perianth and dark red along the spine becoming bright
yellow-green on the perianth limb. The perianth is almost glabrous with
some scattered silky hairs. The style is ca 2cm long, densely covered with
silky hairs on the ovary and occasional hairs along the style. The
flowering season is from August to September and late summer to autumn in
Melbourne.
Diagnosis:
G. alpina
G. 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'
G. rosmarinifolia
Leaves
up to 1cm long; dense hairs under; moderately hairy above; flat to slightly
recurved margins; obtuse to acute apices; new growth densely hairy
2-3cm long; moderately dense silky hairs under; sparsely hairy above;
recurved margins; short recurved mucronate tip pungent apiculate; new
growth densely hairy
2-5cm long; scattered silky hairs under; glabrous above; recurved margins;
pungent apiculate tip; new growth moderately hairy
Flowers
perianth densely hairy ovary densely hairy scattered silky hairs for full
length of style
perianth with scattered silky hairs ovary with dense dense silky hairs
scattered silky hairs for full length of style
perianth glabrous ovary with dense silky hairs glabrous towards end of
style
Grevillea 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' is the same hybrid cross as Grevillea
'(Austraflora) McDonald Park'. The former has more open and firmer foliage
and the leaf margins are recurved as compared flat to slightly recurved.
The leaves are also slightly longer (ca 3cm). Grevillea '(Austraflora)
McDonald Park' is 15cm tall by 60cm across and Grevillea 'Bonnie Prince
Charlie' is 60cm tall by up to 1m across. The general habit of Grevillea
'Bonnie Prince Charlie' is more upright.