Pultenaea pedunculata 'Pyalong Gold'
This cultivar is a colour form of Pultenaea pedunculata Hook. It is a dense prostrate shrub that grows to 2m wide, and is very floriferous. The flowers are ca.1cm across and appear in spring. All other details for the cultivar are as for P. pedunculata.
Diagnosis:
Pultenaea 'Pyalong Gold' is readily distinguished from the usual P. pedunculata by its flower colour which is pure 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 bright yellow flowers make it more conspicuous than the more common forms of P. pedunculata. The cultivar was first selected and introduced to cultivation in October 1977.
Comparators:
Pultenaea pedunculata Hook. CBG 8311008; CBG 002505
Scaevola 'Angela Ratcliffe'
This cultivar has a prostrate habit, spreading to 1m across.
The numerous branches are densely intertwined with individual branches
having a zigzag pattern. The leaves are broad and slightly succulent in
appearance, 2.5-3cm long by up to 1cm wide at the widest point. The leaf
apex is obtuse. Both stems and leaves are covered in short stiff hairs. The
flowers are a purplish colour, borne at the ends of short branchlets, very
much resembling those of S. ramosissima.
Diagnosis:
Scaevola 'Angela Ratcliffe' differs from S. ramosissima in the
following ways. The leaves are obvate and not linear to lanceolate as in
S. ramosissima and are of a much thicker (almost succulent) texture. The
leaf apex is obtuse and not acute. Bracteoles are narrow obvate rather than
linear. Peduncles are shorter than the leaves. Peduncles of S. ramosissima
are as long as or longer than the leaves.
Spyridium parvifolium 'Nimbus'
It is a dense prostrate shrub growing to a height of about
10mm with a spread of about 2m. The small round leaves are up to 8mm long
by 6-8mm wide. The leaf tip is often indented. The green upper leaf surface
has distinct veining while the underside is silvery and covered with long
silky hairs. New foliage is distinctly grey. The small and insignificant
flowers are borne in clusters at the end of the branchlets.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from other forms of Spyridium
parvifolium in its prostrate habit.
Telopea 'Braidwood Brilliant'
The leaves are coriaceous, narrow and cuneate tapering from a long petiole. The margin is slightly undulating but at the top is distinctly toothed. The leaves measure between 15 and 20cms in length. Flowers: The flower colour, a brilliant cherry-red has been determined using the RHS Colour Chart (1966) to be Red 53B to 53C (ie style 53C). The inflorescence is slightly less conical and less dense than T. speciosissima but vastly superior to T. mongaensis in this regard with a flower diameter of 6-8cm. Bracts are present but these are less colourful than in T. speciosissima. The flowering period lasts for 2-3 weeks in October.
Notes:
Telopea speciosissima 'Wirrimbirra White'
This cultivar is a creamy white colour form of the species.
The growth form is similar to the species though is not as vigorous.
Diagnosis:
The buds are an apple green and the inflorescences open to
creamy white.
Other notes:
White waratahs have been recorded in the past, one of the most
notable being a plant which grew in a private garden in the Colo area in
the 1950's. Cutting material of this plant was not made available and the
plant subsequently died without being propagated. The original plant of T.
speciosissima 'Wirrimbirra White' is in an area that has suffered fires of
varying intensity and is therefore vunerable to complete loss. The plant is
in poor condition (1985) with a few stems arising from the lignotuber
reaching 2.5 to 3m tall. White forms of the waratah have been known before
these two plants and an interesting Aboriginal account for their colour is
given in "Gulpilil's Stories of the Dreamtime" compiled by Hugh Rule and
Stuart Goodman, pages 108 to 115. The cultivar is drought and frost hardy
though seems somewhat more prone to bud-boring insects than most waratahs
in Canberra. The cultivar must be grown by vegetative means to preserve the
cultivar form. The method of using leaf buds for propagation by Ellyard and
Butler as outlined in the "Australian Horticulture" 83(3), p27-31 works
well with this cultivar.
Telopea speciosissima 'Corroboree'
This cultivar reaches an annual height of 1.5m. Its mature
height is unknown as it is pruned regularly for cut flowers. The shrubs are
maintained at a width of 1.5m.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar has very compact inflorescences measuring ca.
120mm high by 120mm wide. It is a form that has been selected because of
the marketable qualities of its flowers.
Plectranthus graveolens 'Bennelong Frosty Carpet'
This cultivar is prostrate but with flowering stems 10 to 25cm
tall. It roots very freely forming a dense mat plus/minus 2m across. The
leaves are suborbicular to broadly ovate plus/minus 8cm long by 4.5cm wide.
The concave upper surface of the leaf is deep green and the underside pale
green. Both leaf surfaces are covered in a dense coating of fine, twisted,
silky hairs that are more prominent on the lower surface. On the dentate
leaf margin the whiteness of the hairs contrasts with the leaf colour. The
violet blue flowers are borne on a raceme plus/minus 14cm long. Individual
corollas are plus/minus 1cm long. In Sydney it flowers from December to
February.
Diagnosis:
P. graveolens 'Bennelong Frosty Carpet' can be distinguished
from the normal form of P. graveolens by its prostrate habit, its much
smaller leaves and its hairier appearance.
Prostanthera 'Mauve Mantle'
Low spreading shrub, 1m (h) x 2m (w)
Flowers:
Mauve, 15mm in diameter, from late winter to spring (Melbourne),
late Spring (Canberra) October to November
Foliage colour: Dark green
Comparators:
Prostanthera denticulata
Reasons for distinctiveness: Although the parentage of this cultivar is unknown it does seem to have affinities with Prostanthera denticulata.
Prostanthera 'Mauve Mantle' is a dense prostrate to low growing groundcover with dark green leaves whereas Prostanthera denticulata is a more open, to upright shrub with spreading to erect branches and mid green leaves.
Prostanthera ovalifolia 'Brundah View'
Large open shrub, 3m x 3m, flowers distinctive purplish pink 15mm x 15mm from early September to November.
Prostanthera lasianthos 'Kallista Pink'
This cultivar has deep clear pink flowers borne in profusion.
The shrub grows from 4 to 5m tall by plus/minus 3m wide. All other features
of the plant are as for P. lasianthos.