Eremophila 'Beryl's Gem'
Dense shrub, 1.8m (h) x 1m (w)
Flowers: Deep pink, 20mm x 8mm, from Aug-Oct
Foliage colour: Greyish green
Comparators:
Eremophila calorhabdos, E. splendens
Reasons for distinctiveness:
Thought to be a hybrid between Eremophila
calorhabdos and E. splendens. Eremophila ‘Beryl's Gem’ is a compact shrub
whereas E. calorhados is quite open and upright and E. splendens has orange
flowers.
Eremophila biserrata 'Magic Carpet'
Dense groundcover with upright leaves, 30mm x 3m in diameter, flowers large, burgundy brown, slightly bulbous, 25-30mm. Flowering period: Spring to autumn and intermittent throughout the year
Leaves - upright, dull grey green
Comparators:
Thought to be a Eremophila biserrata hybrid. Eremophila biserrata is a ground hugging prostrate plant with
dark green serrated leaves which grow closely together along the stems of the plant. The corolla is yellow-green with purple strip along the top of the tube. Flowering time is from late spring to mid-summer.
Eremophila 'Summertime Blue'
Large dense intricate shrub, 2m x 3m, flowers lilac with a white throat, 25-30mm, summer
Diagnosis: ntermediate between the two suggested parents.
Comparators:
Eremophila divaricata is a medium intricate shrub with small purple blue flowers while Eremophila polyclada is a large open shrub with white flowers.
Eremophila 'Pink Pantha'
Dense upright shrub, 2m (h) x 2.5m (w), leaves: grey, flowers: buds orange/yellow, petals deep pink, 25mm x 20mm, Aug-Nov. Possibly an E glabra hybrid crossed with either E compacta or E nivea. Both the flower colour and size is unusual for Eremophila glabra.
Eremophila maculata 'Aurea'
This cultivar grows into a compact, low shrub from .6m to .9m
in height by up to 1m wide. The flowers are found in spring and are yellow,
tubular, with consipicious red spots in the throat of the flowers. The
flowers are plus/minus 30mm in length. The buds before they open are also
quite conspicuous. While young they are green yellow turning to yellow just
before they open. The buds contrast well against the bright green glossy
foliage. The flowers are axillary and are borne prolifically.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar differs form the more usual form of Eremophila
maculata in its lower and more compact form and its yellow flowers.
Eremophila maculata 'Carmine Star'
This cultivar is a prostrate to decumbent shrub .5m tall by 1
to 2m wide. The non-interlacing branches are purplish in colour, turning
yellow brown as they age. The branches are warty in appearance and
otherwise glabrous. The leaves are narrow elliptic in shape. The flowers
are solitary and carmine in colour while inside they are rose coloured but
marked with prominent carmine spots except at the tips of the lobes. The
lobes have long white wispy hairs up to 9mm long. The flowering season in
Adelaide is from October to November.
Diagnosis:
E. maculata 'Carmine Star' can be distinguished from the common
form of E. maculata in eastern Australia by it's decumbent sprawling habit
with non-interlacing branches.
Other notes:
The cultivar is widespread in cultivation in Adelaide at the
time of writing (May 1985). It has good drought resistance but may burn in
heavier frosts. It is also known to be tolerant of humidity. Vegetative
means must be used to preserve the cultivar form.
Eucryphia lucida 'Pink Cloud'
The plant from which the material was selected was about 16m
tall. However, as with other forms of Eucryphia lucida when grown in
cultivation, it will most likely only attain a height of 5 to 7m. The
flowers, which occur in the summer months are a soft pink deepening to rose
in the centre of the flower. They are 4cm in diameter.
Diagnosis:
The flower colour is the distinguishing feature of this cultivar
being pink instead of white as is usual with E. lucida.
Dianella tasmanica 'TAS100'
Strappy leaved suckering shrub with variegated leaves to about 0.3m in diameter.
Grevillea 'Fire Sprite'
A large spreading shrub to c. 3m x 5m with a mid-dense habit
and infertile inflorescences.
Branchlets bronze with dense matted hairs, becoming grey with a shiny waxy
layer with age, striate, erect to slightly spreading.
Leaves normally pinnately divided, occasionally simple, to 25cm long and to
18cm wide. Leaf lobes to 17cm long and to 8mm wide. Upper surface dark
green with scattered deciduous appressed white hairs mostly shed with age.
Lower surface with a mixture of white and bronze appressed hairs either
side of a bronze-haired midvein.
Flowers in a simple to branched erect cylindrical conflorescence on a short
peduncle. Floral rachis bronze with matted hairs, average length 7cm.
Flowers burnt red. Perianth 12mm long (average) x 8mm wide, yellow-green at
the base, becoming orange then pinky-red to deep burnt red at the top of
the curve, lightly covered on the outer surface with a mixture of bronze
and white appressed hairs which become dense and bronze on the limb. Inner
surface with scattered erect white hairs particularly in lower third. Limb
bronze, obtuse, revolute. Pistil to 46mm, style to 36mm, burgundy-red with
spreading long white hairs in lower half. Style end same colour as style.
Ovary with dense spreading white hairs, stipitate above a large, markedly
oblique torus. Flowers during June to October, with scattered flowers for
remainder of year.
Diagnosis:
Foliage has broader lobes than G. longistyla, but finer than G.
venusta. Flowers are a unique deep burnt red and orange/green unlike either
of its parents.
Grevillea 'Ember Glow'
A low spreading shrub, which flowers for most of the year. ‘Ember Glow’ grows approximately 1m high x 2m across.