Grevillea 'Lyn Parry'
This cultivar grows to ca. 1.3m tall by 1m across. The leaves
are from 15mm to 35mm long, occasional silky hairs above and densely silky
tomentose below. The leaves are lanceolate with an apiculate apex. The leaf
margins are rolled under. The older branches have a very scattered covering
of small, silky hairs while the younger branchlets are densely covered with
rusty brown hairs. The peduncles and buds are covered in appressed silky
hairs that are rusty reddish in colour. The perianth is approximately 6mm
long and a dull pink in colour. The style is a dull red. The ovary and
inside of the perianth are covered with dense, long, silky hairs. The
flower racemes are terminal and umbel-like. The cultivar bears occasional
flowers all year with the main flowering period being spring.
Diagnosis:
The hybrid origin of this cultivar is very obvious upon closer
examination.
Comparators:
G. buxifolia CBG 7807709; G. sericea CBG 057389.
Chamelaucium uncinatum 'Wilson'
This cultivar forms a shrub ca. 3m tall by 3m wide. The leaves
are ca. 30mm long. The average to large petalled flowers open a deep pink
purple colour and as they age turn a deeper purple. When open the staminal
collar is a very distinct white. The flowers average ca. 20mm in diameter.
Diagnosis:
The cultivar is a selected form of the species. The flower
colour is deep pink purple turning deeper purple with age is its
distinguishing feature. Should provide a statement contrasting the flower
colour of the species with the cultivar.
Callistemon viminalis 'Wollumbin'
The three year old shrub is about 2m high with a spread of
about 1m. The leaves are up to 60mm long by up to 9mm wide. The flowers are
produced in dense 'bottlebrush' clusters. Individual 'bottlebrushes' are
salmon coloured and about 35mm long by about 40mm wide. The stamens are the
colourful parts of the flower. It is stated that this cultivar has a short
flowering period of 7-12 days, however it flowers in spring and again at
the end of January.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from other known forms of C.
viminalis in its salmon coloured flowers instead of the usual red.
Grevillea 'Honey Gem'
Leaves are very deeply pinnately lobed ie. as deep as the
midrib. Each leaf is more or less 29cm long and more or less 24cm wide.
Individual lobes of the leaves are 18cm long and from 2-4mm wide. The upper
surface of the leaf is dark green and the underside is covered with silky
hairs. The leaf margins are rolled under. Young stems are covered with
silky hairs. Flowerheads are apricot with yellow styles, borne on a spike
16cm long and 8cm wide. Individual flowers are more or less 4cm long and
set fertile seed.
Diagnosis:
Grevillea 'Honey Gem' is distinguished from its parents in that
the leaves are intermediate between the two parent species with a bearing
towards Grevillea pteridifolia. The flowers are whorled around the flower
spike as in Grevillea banksii and not one sided as in Grevillea
pteridifolia. Grevillea 'Sandra Gordon' is a hybrid that has a common
parent with G. 'Honey Gem'. The common parent is G. pteridifolia. These
cultivars differ from one another in that Grevillea 'Sandra Gordon' has
flower racemes to 12cm long and the individual flowers are densely packed
on the raceme. The flowers are a bright yellow and the deep lobes of the
leaves are generally wider than G. 'Honey Gem'. G. 'Honey Gem' has a raceme
16cm long and the individaul flowers are borne relatively loosely on the
racemes. The flowers are a browny-orange to apricot colour. The leaves are
wider and longer but the individual lobes are generally narrower than those
in G. 'Sandra Gordon'.
Grevillea banksii 'Kingaroy Slippers'
The leaves are the same as G. banksii. The flowers are borne
in the normal terminal inflorescences for G. banksii. Individual florets
are pink and about 15mm long and the dark pink styles are about 40mm long.
It flowers throughout the year with a main flowering period during summer.
Diagnosis:
The cultivar is different form other known normal forms of G.
banksii in that as the anther unfurls, instead of the limb releasing the
stigma and the perianth splitting so the anther can be released, the
perianth tube breaks away from just below the ovary, and still being
attached at the limb and stigma, is carried away form its normal position.
Self pollination occurs as fertile seed is produced.
Anigozanthos 'Big Red'
Flowering stems are from 1.5 to 2m tall, glabrous or nearly so
below the middle, with scattered plumose hairs becoming more dense under
the inflorescence. Panicle divaricately branched, bearing flowers in
unilateral racemes with an acuminate bract under each branch. Flowers on
pedicels to 12mm long, usually less. The wool is plumose and very dense,
reed on the outside of the perianth tube, tinged with black on the lobes.
The perianth tube is ca. 4.5cm long, glabrous and shining but minutely
scabrous inside. Lobes are ca. 13mm long with dense stellate hairs inside.
Anthers are oblong-linear, more or less as long as the filaments, the
connective tipped with a small glandlike appendage. Ovules are more than 10
per locule.
Diagnosis:
The flowers of Anigozanthos 'Big Red' have the colouring of A.
rufus but are a darker, richer red. They are similar in length to A.
flavidus but are wider and shaped more like A. rufus. The ovary is
prominent like that of A. flavidus. Anigozanthos 'Big Red' is more
floriferous than A. flavidus and A. manglesii and less branched than A.
rufus, appearing closer in habit to A. flavidus. The stems are not as hairy
as A. rufus or A. manglesii but have more hair than A. flavidus.
Citrus australasica 'Jali Red'
Tall shrub or small tree to a maximum of 2-3 metres high by 2
– 2.5 metres wide with a sparse open appearance. Axillary spines solitary,
straight to 25mm long. Leaves are simple, obovate to elliptic, glabrous.
Flowers white approximately 10-15mm in diameter. Flowering period July –
August. Fruit a cylindrical berry, 40-80mms long, 15-25mm in diameter, dark
green to brown, flesh/vescicles red/pink, 2-3mm in diameter.
Note:
the flesh/vescicles becomes darker when exposed to air for several
hours.
Diagnosis:
C. australasica ‘Jali Red’is an open shrub with a distinctive
red/pink flesh.
RHS Colour Chart 1995:
Fruit skin: Brown Group 200a and even thoughout.
Flesh/Vescicles: (When Ripe) Red Group 53c
Red Group 50 b
Red Group 51c
Callistemon pallidus 'Candle Glow'
Callistemon 'Candle Glow' is a prostrate form of Callistemon
pallidus. This cultivar grows to 100mm tall by plus/minus 2.5m across. All
other botanical details of the cultivar are as for C. pallidus.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is readily distinguished from the rest of C.
pallidus by its prostrate habit.
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.
Grevillea 'Merinda Gordon'
This cultivar is an upright shrub 3m tall by 2m across. The
leaves are 2.5 to 3cm long by ca. 2.5cm wide at the widest point. The
leaves are stiff and leathery with the midrib of the leaf being strongly
curved (reflexed). The leaves have a dentate margin with pungent points on
each lobe. The venation is prominent, being yellow green in colour. The
veins stand out from the leaf surface on the underside. The flowers are a
rich pink to red. The style and pedicel are covered with a dense coat of
silky hairs and there are scattered hairs on the perianth segments. The
main flowering season is late winter to early spring though is also
sporadic with flowers often appearing after rain.
Diagnosis:
The leaves of Grevillea 'Merinda Gordon' resemble those of G.
insignis though they are smaller in size. G. insignis leaves are about
5.5cm long by 3cm wide at the widest point though are variable. They are
roughly ovate and undulate with dentate margins surrounded by a pungent
tip. The leaves of the cultivar are more crowded on the stems than in G.
insignis. G. asteriscosa has much smaller, almost sessile leaves that are
deeply trifid and have pungent lobes. The stems of G. insignis are glabrous
with a mealy bloom while Grevillea 'Merinda Gordon' is glabrous without the
mealy bloom. G. asteriscosa has hairy stems. The flowers of the cultivar
are intermediate in size between the parent species, smaller than G.
insignis but larger than G. asteriscosa. The style is glabrous in G.
insignis except near the base while the styles of both G. asteriscosa and
the cultivar are hairy.