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.
Agonis flexuosa 'Variegata'
Diagnosis:
Agonis 'Variegata' differs from other known forms of this
species in its variegated leaves. The variegation consists of a yellow
border varying in width from 0.5-1mm, and a pale green mid portion from
1-2mm broad with a darker midrib in some leaves. Reversion to normal leaves
can occur as is demonstrated on the specimen described here. The green
leaves, produced on a lateral branchlet, are in general larger than the
variegated leaves. In this specimen the former are 45-80mm long and 2-4mm
broad, the variegated leaves on the other hand, are 20-50mm long and 2-4mm
broad. In addition the green portion of the variegated leaves is paler than
the normal leaf colour and seem to emphasis an overall less vigorous
appearance.
NB. In the above cultivar name the latinized form is conserved in
accordance with part 'b' of article 27 in The International Code of
Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants.
Agonis 'Fairy Foliage'
Diagnosis:
The distinguishing feature which makes this plant different from
the normal form is that the leaves are much more crowded. Individual leaf
lamina are generally narrower than normal, the lamina always ending a third
to a half the way along the leaf. The remainder of the leaf is reduced to a
thread-like extension of the mid-rib.
Agonis flexuosa 'Belbra Gold'
This cultivar is a leaf colour form of Agonis flexuosa
(Spreng) Schau. It is a dense shrub that grows to ca. 5m tall by 5m wide.
As the leaves first appear they have a reddish tinge but this quickly
changes to a pale yellow forming a golden crown on the plant. As the leaves
mature there is once again a colour change, as they revert to green or a
pale yellow mottled with green. Shortly after this last change the mature
leaves are dropped from the plant. When viewed from a short distance the
plant is a distinct golden colour. The colour of the foliage can be
affected by the amount of light intensity. The golden colour is more
pronounced during summer months in full light. The other features of the
cultivar correspond with those of Agonis flexuosa.
Diagnosis:
A. 'Belbra Gold' is readily distinguished from the usual A.
flexuosa by its foliage colour and its ultimate height, the cultivar only
growing to 5m. It can be distinguished easily from A. flexuosa 'Variegata'
as the variegation is different. A. flexuosa 'Variegata' has leaves with
yellow margins and a green centre as compared to all yellow or yellow
mottled green of A. 'Belbra Gold'.
Comparators:
Agonis flexuosa 'Variegata' (ACRA Number 4) held at
the Herbarium, National Botanic Gardens, Canberra.
Anigozanthos 'Bush Spark'
Dwarf habit. Not as vigorous in humid climates where it can be disease-prone and Flowers in spring, summer, winter.
Anigozanthos 'Rambocano'
Dwarf clumping selection 0.6-07 m with masses of orange/red flowers in Spring.
Anigozanthos flavidus 'Werite Woorata'
The branched flower spike is approximately 50cm high. The
dominant colour of the flower is dark red to burgundy.
Diagnosis:
The floral tube is reduced from the normal Anigozanthos flavidus
and the petals are lengthened into finger like processes.
Anigozanthos 'Autumn Sunrise'
Stems to ca. 1.75m tall, panicle plumose, slightly villous.
Flowers on pedicels to ca. 6mm long; the wool plumose, dense with red tinge
on the ovary, becoming more yellow green and less dense towards the lobes.
Perianth tube to ca. 4cm long, scabrous inside, hairs longer towards the
base, some with stellate tips immediately above the ovary; lobes to ca. 1cm
long, silvery plumose inside. Anthers oblong-linear, more or less the same
length as filaments, the connective tipped with a gland like appendage.
Ovules 2-6 per locule. The flowering season is November in Western
Australia.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar differs from A. flavidus in having a broader but
shorter perianth tube which tapers gradually from the base to the end of
the tube and the corolla lobes are reflexed. The flower stem is less
branched than A. flavidus and the leaves are broader and less upright. Both
the anthers and the filaments are much longer than A. flavidus, and the
anthers are light green whereas in A. flavidus they are always orange.
Anigozanthos 'Autumn Sunrise' differs from A. pulcherrimus in having
generally broader leaves which are lighter green and more upright. The
perianth tube is longer than A. pulcherrimus and broader, but there are
less flowers per branch. Anthers and filaments are similar in colour and
shape but larger than A. pulcherrimus.
Anigozanthos 'Bush Glow'
This cultivar has flower scapes that reach 0.7m tall. The
individual flowers are a greenish-yellow. The flowers are covered with deep
red coloured hairs that give an orange appearance to the flowers.
Diagnosis:
A. humilis:
Small clumps 100mm wide by 100-500mm tall (flower scape).
Leaves 10mm wide by 200mm long; margins hairy, leaf surface hairy to
glabrous. Flower stems to 500mm; covered in wooly hairs; stems sometimes
branched. Flowers are tubular to 50mm long; covered in short hairs;
perianth lobes turned back; cream, yellow, orange pink or red in colour.
A. 'Bush Glow':
Leaves to 7mm wide by 400mm long; glabrous. Flower stems to
700mm tall, branched. Flowers tubular, 35-40mm long, perianth lobes
partially recurved, perianth greenish-yellow and densely covered with deep
red hairs, becoming short and sparse on the lower stem and red to red-black
in colour.
A. flavidus:
Clumps to 1m across and up to 2m tall. Leaves are 20-40mm wide
by up to 1m long; glabrous. Flower stem up to 2m; glabrous where branching
starts; flowers tubular, 30-40mm long, perianth lobes not curved back, red,
orange, pink,yellow or green in colour.
Callistemon 'Western Glory'
Grows 2-3 m wide by 2-4 m high as a medium upright shrub.
Leaves are 4-7 cm by 1cm lanceolate ending in sharp point, leathery
prominent central and marginal nerves, young growth covered in long hairs,
glabrous when mature. Flower spikes to 12 cm by 5 cm, mauve red terminal,
often in clusters densely arranged.
Diagnosis:
With close affinities to Callistemon citrinus, this cultivar is
said to be similar to C. 'Red Clusters' but flower spikes are 2 to 4 cm
longer and 1 cm wider. The flower colour is red-mauve to pink against red
in C. 'Red Clusters'.