Grevillea 'Poorinda Blondie'
It is a large shrub growing to a height of about 4m by 5m
wide. The leaves are long and narrow and very deeply lobed. Each lobe is
pungent. The average number of lobes per leaf on the specimen examined is
14. The leaves are about 120mm long and up to 40mm wide across the lobes.
Occasionally entire leaves are produced. New foliage exhibits an attractive
bronze colour whilst older foliage is dark green on the upper surface and
grey on the underside with a dense covering of silky hairs. The flowers are
of the "toothbrush" type and are borne terminally on short branchlets. The
perianth is about 8mm long and is covered with dense hairs. The prominent
yellow styles are about 20mm long.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from its stated parent in leaf shape
and colour of styles. Grevillea 'Poorinda Blondie' has wider, about 4mm and
shorter, about 10mm, lobes than Grevillea hookeriana, which had on the
specimen examined, lobes 2mm wide and up to 40mm long. This cultivar has
yellow styles compared with red for Grevillea hookeriana. Grevillea
'Poorinda Blondie' is different from Grevillea 'Poorinda Beulah' in number
of lobes per leaf and colour of styles. This cultivar has an average of 14
lobes per leaf compared with a average of 3 for Grevillea 'Poorinda Beulah'
and has yellow styles compared with pink for Grevillea 'Poorinda Beulah'.
The perianth colour is the same.
Anigozanthos 'Sue Dixon'
The flowering stems reach 75cm tall, slightly woolly towards
the base and becoming more dense towards the top. Flowers are in a simple
terminal raceme, on pedicels up to 12mm long. The dense plumose wool on the
flowers is red on the ovary and pedicel becoming more yellow immediately
above. Perianth tube to ca. 4.5 cm long, scabrous inside, hairs becoming
more linear towards the base, with stellate tips immediately above the
ovary. Lobes to 1.3cm long, plumose woolly inside, the hairs sometime
purple. Anthers linear, slightly longer than filaments, the connective
tipped with a small gland-like appendage. Ovules ca. 6 per locule. The
flowering season is from October to November.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar differs from A. manglesii in having shorter
corolla lobes which are not as reflexed as those in A. manglesii. The
corolla tube is round at the end (flat in A. manglesii and the greenish
yellow anthers (green in A. manglesii) form a part circle (flat in A.
manglesii). The leaves are almost evergreen and similar in colour to A.
flavidus. The cultivar differs from A. rufus in having a broader and longer
corolla tube and bigger lobes. There is less branching on the flower stem
and fewer flowers on the branches. The colour of the flower is two-toned ie
changes at the base of the corolla tube (in A. rufus it is the same right
through to the flower stem). This differs from A. flavidus in having a
shorter flower stem and less branching on the stem. The corolla tube is
broader and slightly longer than in A. flavidus, and the corolla lobes are
reflexed right back. Anthers are greenish yellow (orange in A. flavidus)
and bigger with longer filaments.
Pultenaea pedunculata 'Pyalong Pink'
This cultivar is a colour form of Pultenaea pedunculata. It is
a very dense, prostrate shrub that grows to 2m wide, and is very
floriferous. The flowers are pink, plus/minus 8mm across and appear in
spring. All other details of the cultivar are as for P. pedunculata.
Diagnosis:
Pultenaea 'Pyalong Pink' is readily distinguished from the usual
P. pedunculata by its flower colour. The upper surface of the standard is
pale pink with red striations radiating from the centre, while the under
surface is deep pink. In usual forms of P. pedunculata the flowers are
mainly 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 pink flowers make it more conspicuous.
It is uncommon and its pink flowers make it more conspicuous than the more
common forms of P. pedunculata. The cultivar was first
introduced to cultivation in October 1977.
Comparators:
Pultenaea pedunculata Hook. CBG 8311008 and CBG
002505.
Grevillea 'Poorinda Regina'
It is a dense, spreading shrub growing to a height of about 3m.
The leaves are deeply lobed and are about 150mm long and about
40mm wide. Individual lobes are up to 6mm wide at their widest point and
pungent. Occasionally entire lobes are produced. The upper leaf surface is
shiny green whilst the underside is densely covered in silky hairs. The
leaves are lighter green than most of the other "toothbrush" Grevilleas.
The flowers are of the "toothbrush" type and are borne along the stem in
the leaf axils. Occasionally they are borne on the stem opposite leaf axil.
Diagnosis:
The perianth is deep red and about 8mm long and the styles are
about 25mm long. This cultivar is different from its stated parent in
flower colour. G. 'Poorinda Regina' has a bright pink to cerise inner
perianth and an orange style while G. 'Poorinda Blondie' has a deep purple
inner perianth and yellow style.
Banksia serrata 'Superman'
Small tree growing to 6 metres in height with a spread of 5
metres. Leaves alternate, xeromorphic, oblanceolate, 32 cm long by 4 cm
wide with evenly serrated margins, glabrous, dark green and shiny on upper
surface, lighter green and penniveined on under-surface with a defined
yellowish-green mid-rib. Flower inflorescences terminal spikes 26 cm long
by 13 cm wide on short branches off main trunk. Perianth tubular in bud,
splitting into segments where the style protrudes. Anthers sessile in the
concave tips of the perianth segments. Ovary sessile, style long and wiry,
6 cm long, protruding from the slit in the perianth and curving out in a
hook shape. Fruit a follicle, opening in two hard woody obtuse valves set
transversely on the rachis. Seeds 2 with a terminal membranous wing, the
seeds separated by a plate. Peak flowering is from January to March.
Diagnosis:
This form is much larger in both leaf size and flower size to
the normal range for Banksia serrata as documented by in 'Students Flora of
North Eastern New South Wales'. This gives a range of 8-16 cm x 2-4 cm for
leaves and 8-16 cm x 8-10 cm for spikes. The inflorescence is similar to
B. serrata except for the size of the brushes. Differs from B. serrata in:
* leaves almost twice as long as type form (up to 32cm, type form
7-22cm)
* inflorescences much larger than type form (up to 27cm vs. 7-15cm)
* fruiting cones much larger than type form (up to 27cm long)
Grevillea 'Poorinda Beauty'
This plant will grow to a height of about 2m, however a
tendency to produce long straggly branches has been noted. Leaves are
smooth and grey-green on upper surface being very densely covered in silky
hairs on the underside. Stems are covered wtih silky hairs. Each leaf is
about 1.5cm long by about 3mm wide and pungent.
Diagnosis:
Flowers, red grading to yellow towards the limb, borne in very
dense clusters. Individual flowers are 1cm long, styles deep pink, are
between 1.8 - 2cm long. The flowers are said to be sterile. This cultivar
can be distinguished from its parents in that the flower clusters are more
dense than either of its parents, and these clusters tend to be more spread
out along the branches.
G.'Poorinda Beauty' is of the same cross as G. 'Poorinda Splendour' and G.
'Poorinda Wonder', however it is not known whether the same forms of the
respective species were used. This cultivar differs from both G. 'Poorinda
Splendour' and G. 'Poorinda Wonder' in leaf size. Leaves of this cultivar
are about 1.5cm long compared with 2 - 3cm leaves for both G. 'Poorinda
Splendour' and G. 'Poorinda Wonder'. Flower colour is only different in
that the colour of the perianth tube is a clear bright yellow compared to
the duller colour of both G.'Poorinda Splendour' and G. 'Poorinda Wonder'.
Callistemon 'Reeve's Pink'
The cultivar forms a dense shrub to a height of about 3m with an equal or slightly wider spread. The leaves are entire and about 45mm long by about 8mm wide. The new tip growth is pink and densely covered in silky hairs. The flowers are produced in dense "bottlebrush" clusters which
are themselves often grouped into bunches. Individual "bottlebrushes: are pink and about 70mm long and about 40mm wide. The stamens are the colourful part of the flower.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from its possible parent in its slightly more spreading habit and pink flower colour. The usual colour of Callistemon citrinus is red or lemon.
Brachyscome multifida 'Breakoday'
This cultivar grows to ca.200m tall by up to 800m wide. The
heads are a deep mauve in colour and up to 20mm across.
Diagnosis:
B. 'Breakoday' has a more compact habit and heads with deeper
coloured ray flowers than the more usual form of the species. It is also
immediately distinct because of its darker and broader leaf lobes.
Prostanthera cuneata 'Alpine Gold'
Diagnosis:
Differs from other known forms of Prostanthera cuneata Benth. in
the variegation of its upper leaves. Colour proportions vary from
plus/minus 90% golden yellow to plus/minus 20% where the leaves are merely
edged with gold. Variegation is absent from the lower leaves of the
branches, but the green of these is vertually masked by the brilliant
yellow of the younger leaves.
Leptospermum 'Purple Haze'
‘Purple Haze’ is a medium sized hardy shrub growing to approximately 1.5 metres tall. In spring it has brilliant large deep purple flowers. This tea tree will grow in a wide range of climates and soil types. It is suitable for the smaller garden, shrub beds or as a low screen.