Citrus australasica 'Byron Sunrise'
Very narrow upright tall shrub or small tree to a maximum of 2
metres high by 600mm wide. Delicate small rounded leaves. Flowers white
(with pink buds) approximately 10-15mm in diameter in October. Fruit a
cylindrical berry, 40-80 mms long, 15-25mm in diameter, mottled green/brown
to black when fully ripe with clean smooth skin. Flesh is tangerine/red.
Note:
the flesh/vescicles becomes darker when exposed to air for several
hours.
Diagnosis:
C . ‘Byron Sunrise’is a medium sized selection with a clean
smooth skin and a distinctive tangerine/red coloured flesh.
Citrus australasica 'Pink Ice'
A moderately dense tall shrub or small tree to a maximum of
2.5-3 metres high by1.3 metres wide. Axillary spines solitary, straight to
25mm long. Leaves are simple, obovate to elliptic, glabrous. Flowers white
approximately 10-15mm in diameter, from July-September. Fruit a cylindrical
berry, 4-8 cms long, 15-25mm in diameter. Variation of skin colour green to
brown & pink, vescicles from clear to different shades of pink.
Diagnosis:
CITRUS australasica ‘Pink Ice’ is a medium growing selection
which bears fruit with vescicles varying from clear/translucent, to deep
pink.
Correa 'Coconut Ice'
Correa ‘Coconut Ice’ is a spreading evergreen shrub which grows to approximately 1m high by 2m wide. Foliage is of moderate density.
Leaves cordate, 15-25 mm long x 10-20 mm wide. Flowers 2 - 2.5 cm long, petals tightly recurved, pale pink with cream tips. Flowering time is from
May to October.
Diagnosis:
The flower length (2 - 2.5 cm) is shorter than C. reflexa but longer than C. alba. The colour (pale pink with cream tips) also sets it
apart from both parent species. The degree of flaring of the corolla lobes is intermediate between these species.
Correa 'Mama Maria'
The mature plant is 60 cm x 1. 5 m with a rounded shape and is very compact and dense. Leaves simple narrow elliptical, dark-green, 32 mm x 10 mm, petioles 5 mm, leaf apices obtuse, leaf bases oblique, venation reticulate but barely visible, margins entire. Calyx hemispherical 4 mm x 3
mm, green coloured with scattered tiny rust-coloured stellate hairs and minutely toothed, pedicels to 3 mm. Corolla cylindrical 14 mm from calyx to tip, rose pink covered with rose-coloured stellate hairs with pale green tips. Stamens strongly exerted with oblong yellow anthers with longitudinal
dehiscence and pale green filaments. Style green, slightly shorter than the stamens. Flowering begins in February and continues through autumn.
Diagnosis:
This plant has an affinity to both parent plants. The flower colour is a brighter pink than either parent plant and C. 'Mama Maria' has pale green tips unlike C. 'Dusky Bells' which has uniform pink throughout the length of the corolla but like C. decumbens which has green tips. Flowers stand out
horizontally from stems in this hybrid while C. decumbens has flowers which stand upright and at a number of angles on stems and C. 'Dusky Bells' has flowers which hang down from stems. Leaves are an intergrade between the two parent plants, having the narrow elliptical shape of C. decumbens although longer and wider.
Correa 'Federation Belle'
A small rounded shrub approximately 30 - 40 cm x 1m. Leaves
dark-green, glabrous and slightly scabrous, cordate, 33 mm x 24 mm. Corolla
cylindrical 28 mm x 13 mm, rose pink becoming pale green towards tips.
Corolla tips barely reflexed. Flowering begins in late February and
continues through autumn and early winter.
Diagnosis:
Initially Correa ‘Federation Belle’ appeared to have some
similarities to C. Marion’s Marvel however it is now clear that it has a
closer affinity to C. reflexa var speciosa.
Correa 'Federation Belle' has a much larger flower than the forms of C.
reflexa var speciosa which were growing in the garden at Mole River
Station.
Correa 'Pink Frost'
Low shrub to c. 0.4 m x 0.4 m with a moderately dense habit.
Leaves dark-green, scabrous, cordate, 24 mm x 15 mm. Corolla cylindrical 23
mm x 5 mm, rose pink. Corolla splits almost to calyx with age, giving
impression of a flared bell. Corolla tips strongly reflexed. Flowering is
from May to September in most districts with peak flowering in August.
Diagnosis:
Similar to C. aemula in leaf shape and surface characteristics,
slender pedicels, calyx with acuminate lobes and splitting corolla. Similar
to C. pulchella in flower colour, uniformity of colour on corolla and
strongly reflexed petal tips. This hybrid is unusual and is not similar to
any other registered cultivars.
Correa 'Ivory Bells'
A small dense shrub it grows to 1-2m x 2-3m. Flowers are 2.5
cm long, ivory to tan with recurved lobes. The leaves are 3cm x 2cm
elliptic to ovate, dull dark green and glabrous above, pale greenish tan
and hairy below. Its main flowering is from June to December but also
sporadic flowers can occur.
Diagnosis:
The floral tube of Correa alba is split into 4 separate segments
and the flowers are upright. C. backhouseana has tubular flowers that
occasionally split and they are pendulous. Correa 'Ivory Bells' has semi
pendulous flowers. The flower colour is the distinguishing feature of the
cultivar.
Acmena smithii 'DOW30'
Small tree to 5m x 3m with lime green new growth and dense foliage. Flowers white in summer.
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.