Crowea 'Poorinda Ecstasy'
This cultivar is a compact plant to 1m tall by 1m wide. The
foliage is light green in colour. The leaves are from 30 to 40mm long and 9
to 12mm wide, oblanceolate with a mucronate tip. The branches are angular
and very slightly winged. The flowers are pale pink and occur principally
from early summer to autumn. Occasional flowers occur at other times of the
year. The flowers which are from 25 to 25mm across have a short pedicel and
thus sit tightly in the leaf axils.
Diagnosis:
It is difficult to determine the origin of this putative hybrid
by examination of the cultivar. The cultivar resembles a broad-leaved form
of C. saligna which is believed to have come originally from Kariong near
Gosford, NSW and which saligna has the typical noticeable winged stems
right to the tips of the branches whereas Crowea 'Poorinda Ecstasy' does
not. The branches are angular in the cultivar, similar to those of C.
exalata, with a very slight "wing" lower on the stems. The cultivar differs
from Crowea 'Festival', a previously described hybrid Crowea, by its larger
leaves and its paler flower colour.
Crowea exalata 'Green Cape'
It is a prostrate plant reaching a height of about 150mm but
with a spread of about 800mm. The leaves are up to 20mm long by 3mm wide.
Oil glands are clearly visible on the underside of the leaves. The mauve
flowers are produced in the leaf axils on semi-mature growth. After
flowering the petals change colour to white then green. They remain green
and protect the seeds while they mature.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from known normal forms of Crowea
exalata in its prostrate habit. The usual height attained is 1-2m.
Crowea exalata 'Bindelong Compact'
This cultivar is a form of Crowea exalata. It is a compact
shrub with a height of about 0.5m and a width of about 1m. It is very
floriferous, producing deep pink flowers which darken to a deep purple with
age. The flowers and leaves are in the smaller size range of the species
with the flower diameter around 1.7cm and the leaves about 1.2cm long.
Diagnosis:
C. 'Bindelong Compact' is more compact than the usual form of
C. exalata which grows to more or less 1m high. It flowers throughout the
year with the main flowering from December to April. Other forms of C.
exalata are usually most prolific from March to May. Other features of this
cultivar are as for C. exalata.
Crowea 'Cooper's Hybrid'
Note:
Also known as Crowea 'Starlight'
This cultivar is a dense shrub with erect branches and an
upright habit. The leaves are dark glossy green, 30mm to 35mm long by up to
4mm wide. It grows to 1.5m tall by 1m wide. The flowers occur from November
to May, though occasional flowers may be found at other times of the year.
They are a deep pink and up to 30mm across.
Diagnosis:
Crowea 'Cooper's Hybrid' can be distinguished from a similar
cross, Crowea 'Festival', by its more upright habit and paler pink flower
colour. The petals are narrower and more pointed. Crowea 'Poorinda
Ecstasy', a similar cross, has obovate leaves instead of the narrow
elliptical to elliptical leaves of the previously mentioned hybrids.
Crowea 'Pink Blush'
This cultivar grows to ca. 1m tall by 1.2m in width. The pink
flower buds open white and tinge pink as they age. The flowering season is
from November to June.
Diagnosis:
Other Crowea cultivars are quite distinct from this form.
Crowea 'Festival' has deep pink flowers, as does Crowea 'Coopers Hybrid'.
Crowea 'Poorinda Ecstasy' has pale pink flowers. The characteristic
difference between the above cultivars and Crowea 'Pink Blush' is that the
latter has pale pink flowers. The characteristic difference between the
above cultivars and Crowea 'Pink Blush' is that the latter has flowers that
open white and tinge pink as they age.
Crowea exalata 'White Star'
The habit is undefined. Branchlets terete and scarcely angled.
Leaves alternate, narrow oblong-spathulate and narowing gradually towards
the base, 8-15mm long and 1.5-3mm wide on slender petioles ca. 1-2mm long,
surface smooth, secondary nerves obscure. Central nerve usually raised
below and margins of leaves slightly recurved. Flowers star-like, solitary,
axillary or terminal on very short axillary shoots, 15-18mm across. Sepals
5, free, broadly ovate, ca. 1mm long, imbricate and reflexed. Petals 5,
free, overlapping, broadly ovate 8-9mm long, smooth but with very fine
longitudinal striations. Anthers reported to be yellow. Flowering spring
and summer.
Diagnosis:
Characterised by the "star-like" flowers. It differs from the
typical Crowea exalata in the smaller white rather than pale mauve or pink
flowers, narrower and much shorter leaves.
Dianella longifolia 'Peninsula Perfection'
This cultivar is like the species. It grows to 0.3m - 0.8m x 0.5m. Flowers appear from November to March and are pale blue. It has high tolerance to both drought and frost.
Diagnosis:
The distinguishing feature of this cultivar is the variegated leaves.
Dianella caerulea 'Goddess'
A large strappy leaved clumping perennial with mid green foliage, growing to a metre tall.
Correa alba var. alba 'Blush'
Erect medium sized shrub to c. 2m x 2m with a dense habit.
Branchlets finely tomentose with rust-coloured stellate hairs becoming
green and glabrous with occasional clusters of stellate hairs. Simple
leaves broad elliptic or sub-circular, 20 mm x 20 mm. Leaf tips slightly
emarginate, leaf bases oblique, venation reticulate, margins slightly
recurved. Upper surfaces of mature leaves dark green and coriaceous with
occasional minute hairs. Upper surfaces of young leaves minutely tomentose.
Corolla 10 mm x 10 mm with petals split to calyx, largely white around
margins with pale pink spreading along petal from throat. Peak flowering is
from April to June in most districts with spasmodic flowering throughout
the year.
Diagnosis:
The normal flower colour for C. alba var. alba is white. Various
forms with pink petals occur naturally in both Victoria and Tasmania. This
is one of the naturally occurring forms from Victoria. The descriptive name
'Blush' has been used to differentiate this plant from other C. alba var.
alba forms which have white petals. The size and habit of the plant
conforms to other C. alba var. alba forms.
Correa 'Pink Delight'
Prostrate shrub to c. 40 cm x 2-3 m with a moderately dense
habit. Branchlets and stems green, glabrous with occasional rust-coloured
stellate hairs. Simple cordate leaves, 28 mm x 14 mm, with obvious pattern
of oil glands, petioles 6 mm. Leaf apices obtuse, leaf bases oblique,
venation reticulate, margins entire. Upper surfaces of mature leaves dark
green and glabrous. Upper surfaces of young leaves glabrous with occasional
rust-coloured stellate hairs. Lower surfaces pale green, glabrous with
occasional white stellate hairs and scattered rust-coloured stellate hairs.
Corolla cylindrical 40 mm x 15 mm, pale pink with cream tips. Peak
flowering is from May to July in most districts.
Diagnosis:
The glabrous leaves of this cultivar conform to descriptions for
C. pulchella by Wilson (1998). The flower is larger than Wilson's range for
C. pulchella and the cream tips are an unusual variation. C. pulchella
flowers tend to have only one colour from calyx to tip rather than two.
There may be some affinity with C backhouseana in this seedling. The
cultivar flower is distinctive because of its size which is larger than
most C. pulchella flowers and because of its colour which is different from
other C. pulchella hybrids, e.g., 'Dusky Bells', 'Pink Mist', 'Mannii'. It
differs from C. 'Firebird' in flower size and colour, in size of plant and
growth habit and in leaf shape and tomentum.