Pultenaea pedunculata 'Pyalong Gold'
This cultivar is a colour form of Pultenaea pedunculata Hook. It is a dense prostrate shrub that grows to 2m wide, and is very floriferous. The flowers are ca.1cm across and appear in spring. All other details for the cultivar are as for P. pedunculata.
Diagnosis:
Pultenaea 'Pyalong Gold' is readily distinguished from the usual P. pedunculata by its flower colour which is pure yellow with a small patch of red around the base of the keel and standard of the flowers.
Other notes:
Although forms close to this one are known from previous wild collections, it is uncommon and its bright yellow flowers make it more conspicuous than the more common forms of P. pedunculata. The cultivar was first selected and introduced to cultivation in October 1977.
Comparators:
Pultenaea pedunculata Hook. CBG 8311008; CBG 002505
Scaevola 'Angela Ratcliffe'
This cultivar has a prostrate habit, spreading to 1m across.
The numerous branches are densely intertwined with individual branches
having a zigzag pattern. The leaves are broad and slightly succulent in
appearance, 2.5-3cm long by up to 1cm wide at the widest point. The leaf
apex is obtuse. Both stems and leaves are covered in short stiff hairs. The
flowers are a purplish colour, borne at the ends of short branchlets, very
much resembling those of S. ramosissima.
Diagnosis:
Scaevola 'Angela Ratcliffe' differs from S. ramosissima in the
following ways. The leaves are obvate and not linear to lanceolate as in
S. ramosissima and are of a much thicker (almost succulent) texture. The
leaf apex is obtuse and not acute. Bracteoles are narrow obvate rather than
linear. Peduncles are shorter than the leaves. Peduncles of S. ramosissima
are as long as or longer than the leaves.
Spyridium parvifolium 'Nimbus'
It is a dense prostrate shrub growing to a height of about
10mm with a spread of about 2m. The small round leaves are up to 8mm long
by 6-8mm wide. The leaf tip is often indented. The green upper leaf surface
has distinct veining while the underside is silvery and covered with long
silky hairs. New foliage is distinctly grey. The small and insignificant
flowers are borne in clusters at the end of the branchlets.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from other forms of Spyridium
parvifolium in its prostrate habit.
Telopea 'Braidwood Brilliant'
The leaves are coriaceous, narrow and cuneate tapering from a long petiole. The margin is slightly undulating but at the top is distinctly toothed. The leaves measure between 15 and 20cms in length. Flowers: The flower colour, a brilliant cherry-red has been determined using the RHS Colour Chart (1966) to be Red 53B to 53C (ie style 53C). The inflorescence is slightly less conical and less dense than T. speciosissima but vastly superior to T. mongaensis in this regard with a flower diameter of 6-8cm. Bracts are present but these are less colourful than in T. speciosissima. The flowering period lasts for 2-3 weeks in October.
Notes:
Telopea speciosissima 'Wirrimbirra White'
This cultivar is a creamy white colour form of the species.
The growth form is similar to the species though is not as vigorous.
Diagnosis:
The buds are an apple green and the inflorescences open to
creamy white.
Other notes:
White waratahs have been recorded in the past, one of the most
notable being a plant which grew in a private garden in the Colo area in
the 1950's. Cutting material of this plant was not made available and the
plant subsequently died without being propagated. The original plant of T.
speciosissima 'Wirrimbirra White' is in an area that has suffered fires of
varying intensity and is therefore vunerable to complete loss. The plant is
in poor condition (1985) with a few stems arising from the lignotuber
reaching 2.5 to 3m tall. White forms of the waratah have been known before
these two plants and an interesting Aboriginal account for their colour is
given in "Gulpilil's Stories of the Dreamtime" compiled by Hugh Rule and
Stuart Goodman, pages 108 to 115. The cultivar is drought and frost hardy
though seems somewhat more prone to bud-boring insects than most waratahs
in Canberra. The cultivar must be grown by vegetative means to preserve the
cultivar form. The method of using leaf buds for propagation by Ellyard and
Butler as outlined in the "Australian Horticulture" 83(3), p27-31 works
well with this cultivar.
Telopea speciosissima 'Corroboree'
This cultivar reaches an annual height of 1.5m. Its mature
height is unknown as it is pruned regularly for cut flowers. The shrubs are
maintained at a width of 1.5m.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar has very compact inflorescences measuring ca.
120mm high by 120mm wide. It is a form that has been selected because of
the marketable qualities of its flowers.
Grevillea 'Poorinda Elegance'
Leaves are a bright shiny green on upper surface, but covered
with dense silky hairs on underside. Each leaf is up to about 4cm long and
about 4-6mm wide and pungent. The edges are slightly rolled under. Flowers
are yellow with contrasting bright pink style, are produced in loose heads
on the ends of short branches. Short leaf-like bracts are usually seen
within each flower head. Individual flowers, yellow about 1.2cm long while
the bright pink styles are about 2.2cm long. Flowers are said to be
sterile.
Note:
This cultivar can be expected to grow to a height of about 1.5m by
about 2m wide.
Diagnosis:
The flower colours of yellow and bright pink distinguish this
cultivar from its assumed parents.
Grevillea 'Poorinda Belinda'
A shrub with laxly spreading to divaricate branches; leaves
15-25mm long,2-4mm broad, oblong to narrow elliptical, + acute with
scarcely pungent points, glabrous glossy and trinerved above, the margins
recurved; infloresence a short loose raceme, the rachis 7-8mm long,
pubescent; flowers on slender pubescent pedicals 5-7mm long; perianth tube
8-10mm long + 1mm diameter near the recurved limb, dilating to + 3mm
diameter below the middle, pubescent, the limb 2.25mm diameter, more
densely pubescent; ovary villous as is the 2mm long stipe; style + 20mm
long villous in the lower part with scattered hairs above, disc surrounding
stigma obicular 2mm diameter, glabrous.
Diagnosis:
Grevillea 'Poorinda Belinda' differs from G. juniperina chiefly
in its scarcely pungent + flat leaves; perianth tube more broadley dilated
below the middle; ovary and stipe villous, the stipe much less than 4mm
long, and inits hairy style.
Comparators:
Grevillea juniperina R.Br. 13M (Ca 21Km) from
Braidwood-Nerriga, New South Wales, D.W. Shoobridge, 28-10-1962 CBG 013054.
Notes:
Another attractive addition to the "Poorinda" range of cultivars and
one that is similiar at least in leaf shape to G. 'Poorinda Signet'. It can
be distinguished from that cultivar by the innocuous points of its leaves;
its shorter inflorescence and the hairy covering of its branches which is
not distinctively whitish grey. Differences to be seen are densely hairy
ovary of G. 'Poorinda Belinda', its much longer hairy style and its overall
flower colour which is a pale orange shade rather than brick red.
Grevillea 'Poorinda Peter'
This cultivar is a large spreading shrub growing to a height
of about 3 metres by 3-4 metres wide. The leaves are very deeply lobed,
occasionally with secondary lobes. The individual lobes are pungent, and
15mm by 4-5mm wide. The upper leaf surface is smooth and shiny whilst the
underside is covered with dense silvery hairs. The leaf edges are rolled
under. The new foliage has purple to bronze tonings. The flowers are of the
toothbrush type and are borne terminally in the upper leaf axils. The
perianth is about 10mm long and is covered with dense hairs. These hairs
mask its deep purple colour. The reddish purple style is about 20mm long.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar differs from G. acanthifolia in that each lobe is
usually entire compared with the usually sub-divided lobes of G.
acanthifolia. The leaves are different from G. longifolia in that they are
much more deeply lobed.
Note:
Upon further continuing close examination of specimens growing at the
Australian National Botanic Gardens it has been found that not all
specimens have dense silvery hairs on the underside of the leaves. It
appears that this characteristic can vary slightly between specimens in
different situations. For this reason this characteristic should not have
too great an emphasis placed upon it when determining this cultivar.
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.