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.
Grevillea alpina 'Grampians Gold'
This cultivar has golden yellow flowers and the perianth is
covered in prominent brownish hairs. All other characteristics are as for
G. alpina.
Diagnosis:
Grevillea 'Grampians Gold' has golden yellow flowers and
prominent rusty brown hairs covering the perianth segments. This
distinguishes it from the normal colour forms of G. alpina which are red
and yellow or red and cream.
Anigozanthos 'Big Red'
Flowering stems are from 1.5 to 2m tall, glabrous or nearly so
below the middle, with scattered plumose hairs becoming more dense under
the inflorescence. Panicle divaricately branched, bearing flowers in
unilateral racemes with an acuminate bract under each branch. Flowers on
pedicels to 12mm long, usually less. The wool is plumose and very dense,
reed on the outside of the perianth tube, tinged with black on the lobes.
The perianth tube is ca. 4.5cm long, glabrous and shining but minutely
scabrous inside. Lobes are ca. 13mm long with dense stellate hairs inside.
Anthers are oblong-linear, more or less as long as the filaments, the
connective tipped with a small glandlike appendage. Ovules are more than 10
per locule.
Diagnosis:
The flowers of Anigozanthos 'Big Red' have the colouring of A.
rufus but are a darker, richer red. They are similar in length to A.
flavidus but are wider and shaped more like A. rufus. The ovary is
prominent like that of A. flavidus. Anigozanthos 'Big Red' is more
floriferous than A. flavidus and A. manglesii and less branched than A.
rufus, appearing closer in habit to A. flavidus. The stems are not as hairy
as A. rufus or A. manglesii but have more hair than A. flavidus.
Grevillea 'Parfait Creme'
This cultivar is an open to medium dense bush up to 3.5m tall
by 3m wide. The leaves are very similar to those of G. whiteana. The main
flowering season is spring and autumn though some flowers are found over
most of the year.
Diagnosis:
Grevillea 'Parfait Creme' differs from Grevillea 'Pink Parfait'
in the colour of the flowers. It is very similar to G. whiteana but differs
in the following ways:
G. whiteana
G. 'Parfait Creme'
flowers white/cream
flowers cream-yellow/caramel
pollen presenter yellow
pollen presenter greenish
branch wood pale to fawn
branch wood reddish brown
foliage greyish
foliage greenish
hairs on perianth creamy
hairs on perianth rusty
Flowering is more prolific than either of its parents.
Grevillea 'Starflame'
Grevillea 'Starflame' grows into a slender shrub 2m tall and
1m wide. The foliage and inflorescences are the same as for Grevillea
'Starfire'. Flowering is sporadic but most prolific in spring. The flowers
are bright flame red with red styles.
Diagnosis:
Grevillea 'Starflame' is very much like both its parent G
.'Honey Gem' and another G. 'Honey Gem' seedling, G. 'Starfire'. The main
difference between the three is flower colour. G. 'Honey Gem' has greyed
yellow lobes with yellow styles, G. 'Starflame' has red lobes with red
styles, and G. 'Starfire' has dark red lobes with pink styles.
Callistemon 'Kempsey'
This cultivar is a tall erect shrub to 4m tall by up to 2m
across. The bark is semi-papery. The leaves are narrow lanceolate and 65mm
long by 6mm wide. The flowers are a bright red in colour and are borne in
densely packed terminal racemes in spring and summer.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is more erect than either of the parent species.
The flowers are also held more erect and larger than the parent species.
The new leaf growth is not red.
Babingtonia bidwillii 'Howie's Sweet Midget'
It is a small compact plant reachinga height of up to 500mm by
ca. 600mm wide. The leaves are opposite, ca. 10mm long and 1.5mm wide. The
five petalled flowers form in small umbels near the ends of branchlets and
are 5-6mm across. The flowers occur in summer.
Diagnosis:
Its compact dwarf habit distinguishes it from its parents which
usually grow to 3m or more.