Grevillea 'Superb'
This cultivar is a shrub of medium density, growing to plus/minus 1m tall by 1-2m wide. The foliage is very similar to G. 'Robyn Gordon' (a cross with the same parent species) and it is virtually impossible to distinguish between them. The inflorescence can measure plus/minus 15cm long by plus/minus 9cm wide. The individual flowers are moderately densely packed on the raceme and completely encircle the rachis. Individual flowers measure 4.5 to 5cm long. The pedicel and perianth are also covered in dense, closely appressed hairs. The style appears glabrous but does have scattered, very short, silky hairs. The inflorescences are borne teminally. The buds are dark in colour before opening. The inflorescences are very similar to G. 'Robyn Gordon' except in colouration. The flowers are salmon in colour with the perianth changing to red as they
age. The styles are red with yellow tips.
Diagnosis:
Vegetatively this cultivar is very similar to G. 'Robyn Gordon'. The difference is in the flower colour as described above.
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.
Grevillea 'Golden Sparkle'
Grevillea 'Golden Sparkle' was described by H and J Sparks
(Your Garden February 1973) in these terms. "This Grevillea which we have
named 'Golden Sparkle' grows 4ft to 5 ft and has a typical spider flower of
orange-red. In spring and autumn the foliage tips turn a striking reddish
bronze, which adds to its beauty".
Diagnosis:
The specimen presented for registration appears to be a cultivar
of Grevillea speciosa (Knight) D. McGillivray. It differs from this species
in the leaf variegation which apparently sugggested its cultivar name. The
variegation consist of an irregular border or blotches of golden yellow on
a background of somewhat pale to normal deep green.
Grevillea juniperina 'Molonglo'
A low spreading shrub 1m high x 1m+ across; branches pubescent, arcuate to declinate, the longer branches becoming decumbent; leaves 8-20mm long and 1-2mm wide, linear-subulate, somewhat angular, with pungent apices, the upper surfaces glabrous, the lower pubescent and almost
hidden by the revolute margins; flowers apricot in sessile racemes, terminal on short lateral branches; perianth tubes 10-12mm long, silky pubescent outside styles ca 30mm long red.
Diagnosis:
Grevillea juniperina 'Molonglo' differs from G. juniperina (yellow flowered prostrate form)in its spreading, not prostrate habit, its narrower, more pungent leaves with closely revolute margins and in its larger apricot flowers with red styles. It also differs from other forms of G. juniperina in its low spreading habit and in flower colour.
Grevillea 'Little Thicket'
Individual plants are about 1m high by about 1m wide, however,
dense thickets are formed due to the growth of neighbouring suckers. Tufts
of new shoots appear up to 5m from a main stem. The leaves are green on the
upper surface and silvery on the underside due to dense hairs. They are up
to 18mm long and 3mm wide. The leaf edges are rolled under. The pale yellow
flowers which have a red tinge are 8mm long while the yellow styles are
20mm long. The flowers are produced in small terminal clusters. On
occasions the flowers do not always form but abort at an early stage.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from known naturally occurring forms
of the species in its low suckering habit.
Grevillea 'Patricia Marie'
The leaves are the same for G. banksii. The flowers are formed
into large dense multiple clusters and these are produced terminally.
Individual florets are pink and about 15mm long and the deep pink styles
are about 45mm long.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from the usual forms of G. banksii
in its clustered shorter inflorescences. They do not taper form the base to
the tip as does G. banksii.
Grevillea 'Pink Surprise'
Leaves are compound and shiny green on the upper surface. Each
leaf consists of + 20 long narrow lobes, occasionally these being
subdivided into two. Some lobes end in a small hooked point, others in a
straight point. The overall length of a leaf is + 30cm and the width +
10cm. Individual lobes are about 10cm long and 2-4mm wide. The leaf edges
are rolled under. Flowers are pink with long cream to very pale green
styles. Flowers are about 15cm long and approximately 5cm wideand produced
in dense terminal racemes. Individual flowers are borne in tight pairs and
are woolly. Perianth tube and limb together measure about 1.3cm long,
styles are up to 3.5 cm long.
Diagnosis:
G. 'Pink Surprise' can be distinguished from its parents by its
pink flower colour
Grevillea 'McDonald Park'
This cultivar grows to +150mm tall by +600mm across. It forms
a dense, low spreading shrub. The stems are round and the new branchlets
are short and covered in hairs. The leaves are densely packed on the
branchlets and are ± 20mm long by +3mm wide. The leaf margins are recurved
to revolute and the leaves are densely covered with silky hairs underneath
and sparsely covered above. The flowers are borne in terminal racemes on
the branchlets. They are red and yellow in colour and very similiar to the
flowers of G. alpina. The perianth segments are almost glabrous with some
sparse hairs while the style is densely covered with silky hairs.
Diagnosis:
The cultivar is low growing and very dense. In habit it closely
resembles G. alpina, with the density and leaf size of G. rosmarinifolia.
The cultivar's leaves are midway between the narrow, linear sharp pointed
leaves of G.rosmarinifolia and the flattish, oblong leaves of G.alpina. The
margins are recurved to revolute compared to the revolute margins of G.
rosmarinifolia and the flat leaves of G.alpina. The foliage and flowers are
midway between the glabrous nature of G.rosmarinifolia and the hairiness of
the leaves and flowers of G.alpina. The newer growth is hairy but not as
much so as G.alpinaand more so than G. rosmarinifolia.
Note:
This cultivar has previously been catalogued and sold as G. alpina
'Mcdonell Park' and G. alpina 'Mcdonald Park'. These names are incorrcct as
the plant is of hybrid origin.
Comparators:
Grevillea rosmarinifolia NBG 020246; Grevillea
alpina NBG 036418.
Callistemon 'Ngungun Red'
The shrub is erect with a somewhat vase-shaped habit, to 2 m
across by 5 m high at the top. Bark is grey and fissured. Leaves are
mid-green, narrow-ellipitcal, to .7cm wide by 6 cm long. The young growth
is deep pink to red and clothed with silky appressed hairs. Mature leaves
are glabrous. Flowers are produced in spring. Inflorescences are up to 4 cm
across by 7 cm long with new growth apparent at flowering time. The anther
filaments are burgundy and the anthers are gold.
Diagnosis:
The flowers are different to other seedlings of this cross. The
filaments are burgundy with yellow anthers.
Grevillea 'Flame 'n Beauty'
A dense spreading, shrub 0.6-1 m high 1.5-2 m wide. Branchlets
ascending, round in cross-section, slender, densely white-velvety. Leaves
2-4.5 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, obovate in outline, secund, 3–5-sect,
usually with trisect secondary division; primary leaf lobes 3-5, ultimate
lobes 0.5-2 cm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, stiff, pungent, upper surface
grey-green, texture leathery. Flowers:
buds whitish-green, perianth pale
yellow outside ageing white, the inner tepals reddish above the curve; the
limb creamy-white; style and style-end red; pollen-presenter whitish-pink.
The overall appearance of the flower is a peach colour aging to pink.
Flowering occurs from May through to December.
Diagnosis:
G. asparagoides differs in its open, cylindrical inflorescences
and perianths up to 5 mm wide and with a dense indumentum of glandular
hairs. G. calliantha has leaves to 7.5 cm long with 5-7 lobes, longer
floral bracts (>2 mm long) and perianths lacking glandular hairs. Flower
colour is a blend of both parents.
Similar hybrids:
Grevillea ‘Little Jessie’ which differs in its leaves
lacking secondary division.