Anigozanthos 'Red Cross'
This cultivar is a vigorous plant with flowering scapes to
1.6m tall. The flowering stems are multi-branched, thin and tend to spread
as broad as they are high. Up to 7600 individual flowers have been recorded
for a mature plant of the cultivar, and they are a rich burgundy in colour.
This colour is produced by the dense covering of plumose hairs on the
flowers and much of the flowering stem, fading in colour and intensity as
they reach lower down the stem. The flowers have a bright yellow green
patch of colour near the pedicel. Individual flowers are up to 30cm long by
ca. 8mm wide at the widest point of the corolla. The corolla tube is
terminated by six perianth lobes which taper to a point. These lobes are
reflexed when the flower is fully opened. Inside the perianth segments are
yellow green as are the stamens. The stamens are more or less as long as
the perianth tube. Leaf like bracts occur frequently on the flowering stem
and regularly reach 30cm long. The foliage is also vigorous with leaves
from 36 to 60cm long by 10 to 40mm wide.
Diagnosis:
Anigozanthos 'Red Cross' shows the vigour and longevity of A.
flavidus. The flowers have the rich colouring of A. rufus. The cultivar is
larger than the maternal parent but does not reach the proportions of a
well-grown plant of A. flavidus. The anthers are yellow green as are those
of all the A. flavidus hybrids, the orange anthers of A. flavidus being
recessive.There are two other cultivars that arise from this cross,
Anigozanthos 'Harmony' and Anigozanthos 'Unity'. The quickest and easiest
distinguishing feature is that Anigozanthos 'Red Cross' has a very distinct
yellow patch at the base of the flower. Anigozanthos 'Velvet Harmony' is a
much deeper colour while Anigozanthos 'Unity' has larger flowers, to 40mm
long as compared to 30mm for A. 'Red Cross'.
Anigozanthos 'Dwarf Delight'
This cultivar is a compact plant with much branched flower
stems to .8m tall. The flowering stems are covered with plumose hairs.
These hairs are sparsely scattered at the base of the stem and around the
leaf-like bracts on the stem. The hairs are reddish in colour. The perianth
segments of the flower are green-yellow but appear apricot when seen
through the reddish hairs. These two colours contrast well. The leaves are
up to 25cm long by 1cm wide.
Diagnosis:
Anigozanthos 'Dwarf delight', which grows to 0.8m tall, is
midway in height between the ca. 0.3m of A. onycis and ca. 2m of A.
flavidus. The flowering stems of the cultivar are sparsely covered with
plumose hairs for much of their length, becoming dense towards the
individual flowers. The flowering stems of the cultivar are sparsely
covered with plumose hairs for much of their length, becoming dense towards
the individual flowers. A. onycis, is covered in dense, plumose hairs for
the full length of the flower spike while A. flavidus has them only on the
perianth segments of the flower and for a short distance below on the stem.
The majority of the stem in this species is glabrous. The leaf-like bracts
on the stem are the size of A. onycis. The flowers are intermediate in size
between those of the two parents.
Anigozanthos 'Mini Red'
It is a perennial rosetted herb growing to a height of
approximately 600mm. The leaves are green, long and narrow being about
300mm long and about 8mm wide. The flowers are produced in compact,
branched terminal clusters. Individual flowers are red and about 35-40mm in
length.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from other known forms of
Anigozanthos flavidus in its small, compact habit and dense flower
clusters.
Anigozanthos 'Patricia'
Note:
Received as A. 'Mister X', possibly also known as 'Mini-X'
Leaves glossy green to 20 cm long; inflorescence to 0.6 m tall
and branched between 4 and 10 times, lower stem green and sparsely covered
with red hairs, becoming denser closer to the flowers giving red brown
colour; individual flowers to 4 cm long, overall colour effect a dull brown
but a brighter red at the base of unopened perianth tube; flowering season
September - November in W.A.
DIAGNOSIS:
Anigozanthos 'Patricia' to 0.6 m tall; flowers appear dull red/brown
individual flowers ca. 4cm long;inflorescence branches 4 - 10 times
Anigozanthos 'Unity' to 1.5 m tall; dark red flowers; tube ca. 4 cm long;
inflorescence branches 20 - 30 times.
Anigozanthos 'Red Cross'to 1.6 m tall; flowers burgundy with yellow patch
at base of perianth; individual flowers ca. 3 cm long
Anigozanthos 'Pink Joey', another wild selection, differs from other known
forms of this species in its small stature and pale purplish pink flowers.
It attains a height of only 50 cm and has somewhat narrow leaves 16 - 33 cm
long and 0.4 - 0.6 cm broad; the much branched panicle is 20 cm long and
many flowered.
Callistemon 'Harkness'
The leaves are entire and up to 130mm long by up to 12mm wide.
The flowers are produced in long dense "bottlebrush" clusters. These
clusters are produced in bunches of up to 11 "brushes". Individual
"bottlebrushes" are red and up to 150mm long by about 55mm wide. The
stamens are the colourful parts of the flower.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from other Callistemon cultivars in
its long dense and clustered red inflorescences.
Anigozanthos 'Autumn Mystery'
The flowering stems are up to 1m tall with sparse stellate
hairs towards the base, becoming woolly and plumose towards the flowers.
The flowers are in simple terminal racemes, on pedicels to ca. 5mm long.
The hairs are plumose and woolly, having red tips with yellow bases over
the ovary changing to yellow tips with red bases toward the perianth lobes.
The anthers are linear and more or less the same length as the filaments,
the connective tipped with a gland like appendage. The ovules are numerous.
The flowering season is the spring months.
Diagnosis:
The flowers of Anigozanthos 'Autumn Mystery' are longer than for
A. flavidus but shorter than A. manglesii. They attain a similar shape and
width to A. manglesii with a less prominent ovary than A. flavidus. The
base of the perianth tube is red on the ovary but doesn't immediately
become green above like A. manglesii. Instead, the hairs are mixed red with
a greater portion of yellow green hairs the colour of those on A. flavidus
. Anigozanthos 'Space Age' is a cultivar resulting from the same hybrid
cross and has somewhat taller stature and indistinctly larger flowers than
Anigoizanthos 'Autumn Mystery' (perianth tube ca. 60mm versus ca. 52mm).
The flowers of Anigozanthos 'Space Age' are wholly deep red, but those of
Anigozanthos 'Autumn Mystery' appear yellow to brown with touches of red.
Anigozanthos 'Early Spring'
This cultivar has flowering stems to about 1.1m tall, mostly
glabrous with a covering of dark purple tomentose hairs. The flowers are on
terminal branchlets which are divaricately branched. The flowers have
pedicels to about 4mm long. The wool on the flowers is dark red, plumose
over the whole surface with occasional yellow green hair giving them a
slightly dusty appearance. The perianth tube is around 45mm long, glabrous
inside and minutely scabrous dotted below the middle. The perianth loves
are about 10mm long with dense woolly yellow green and sometimes orange
plumose hairs inside. The anthers ar shorter than the filaments, the
connective tipped with a reduced gland like appendage. The ovules are about
6 per locule.
Diagnosis:
The flowers of Anigozanthos 'Early Spring' have the colouring of
A. rufus. They are similar in length to A. flavidus but broader than A.
flavidus or A. viridis and not as broad as A. rufus. The bracts are
narrower and less hairy than A. rufus but broader than those in A. flavidus
. The stems are more hairy than A. rufus. The leaves are much broader and
not as long as A. viridis. The ovary is less prominent than in A. flavidus
. Anigozanthos 'Early Spring' does not grow as tall as A. rufus.
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.)