Chrysocephalum baxteri 'Midget'
Leafy, compact, low shrub, 15cm high by 30cm wide, with very
small white everlasting flowerheads with yellow discs. As the shrub matures
it develops woody basal stems. Leaves 1.5-4mm long by 0.75mm wide,
alternate, sessile, recurved, apex obtuse. Upper surfaces of leaves
glabrous, lower surface tomentose, flowering stem 5-7cm long, flowerhead
10-15mm across. The rays are fringed. Flowerheads are solitary and
terminal. Flowering period is spring followed by a brief second period of
blooms in January when flowerheads are smaller. Outer involucral bracts are
tan in colour.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar has all the characteristics of the usual forms of
C. baxteri but is distinguished by the diminutive size of all the
characters of the plant - leaves, rays, flowerhead and fruit.
Crowea saligna 'PPCS1'
Small shrub with pink star flowers in Autumn and Winter. Spontaneous mutation: a sport appeared from Crowea saligna that had larger leaves and a taller height.
Dianella caerulea 'DBB03'
A small clumping plant 50cm high x 40cm wide with blue strappy leaves and purple and yellow flowers from September to November.
Dianella caerulea 'DC101'
A small clumping plant 50cm high x 40cm wide with red basal leaves and purple and yellow flowers from September to November.
Dianella caerulea 'DC150'
A small clumping plant 0.3m(h) x 0.4m(w) with blue strappy leaves and purple and yellow flowers from September to November.
Dianella caerulea 'DCMP01'
A small clumping plant 0.4m(h) x 0.4m(w) with strappy leaves and purple and yellow flowers from September to November.
Dianella caerulea 'DCNCO'
strappy leaved shrub which grows to about 0.7m in diameter with blue and yellow flowers and purple fruit.
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.