Callistemon 'Packers Selection'
This cultivar is a fast growing and pendulous shrub ca. 1.5m
tall by 1.5m wide. Inflorescences are deep red in colour and ca. 9cm long,
but narrow in diameter (ca. 3cm). Flowering is spasmodic all year (as
observed under conditions in WA) with profuse flowering in October,
January-February and March-April (also in WA).
Diagnosis:
Callistemon 'Packers Selection' closely resembles C. subulatus.
It is possible to distinguish the cultivar by its very pendulous habit
compared with the more erect habit of C. subulatus and by the much longer
inflorescences. The flowers are a deep red fading as they age.
Comparators:
Callistemon subulatus CBG 7801196. NSW South Coast,
14Km north of Yowrie PO on north side of Tuross River.
Grevillea 'Poorinda Stephen'
It is a small shrub growing to a height of about 1m. The
narrow pungent leaves are entire and about 20mm long and 3mm wide. The
upper surface is pale green with prominent veins whilst the underside is
grey and covered with dense silky hairs. The flowers are formed into
clusters and are borne terminally in the leaf axils. The perianth is a deep
pink and about 14mm long and the prominent styles are about 25mm long. The
flowers are said to be sterile.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from its parents in that it is
smaller in size. The leaves are also smaller than those usually seen on
both parents.
Pimelea ferruginea 'Magenta Mist'
This cultivar resembles the usual form of P. ferruginea
except in regard to the flower colour. The inflorescences are magenta in
colour.
Diagnosis:
P. ferruginea 'Magenta Mist' is readily distinguished from P.
ferruginea because of the rich magenta colour of its flowers. It can be
distinguished form P. ferruginea 'Bonne Petite' in the following ways:
'Magenta Mist'
'Bonne Petite'
Internode distance as for usual form of the species.
Leaf internode distance shorter than usual for the species.
Flower heads loose, open to 3cm across.
Flower heads compact to 2-2.5cm across.
Flowers deep pink (magenta).
Flowers pale pink fading quickly around outer edges to paler pink, then
white.
Colour of flowers hold well
Flower colour fades quickly.
Leaf apex rounded.
Leaf apex slightly pointed.
Grevillea tenuiloba 'Golden Glory'
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is an orange flowered form of the species. The
foliage is a bright green in colour. The more usual form of the species has
pink red flowers and slightly greyish foliage. The plant is described by
the applicant as being very floriferous. However, the usual form of the
species is also very floriferous and comparison of the cultivar specimen
with specimens of the more usual form does not indicate that density of
flowering is a major distinguishing feature.
Eremophila maculata 'Carmine Star'
This cultivar is a prostrate to decumbent shrub .5m tall by 1
to 2m wide. The non-interlacing branches are purplish in colour, turning
yellow brown as they age. The branches are warty in appearance and
otherwise glabrous. The leaves are narrow elliptic in shape. The flowers
are solitary and carmine in colour while inside they are rose coloured but
marked with prominent carmine spots except at the tips of the lobes. The
lobes have long white wispy hairs up to 9mm long. The flowering season in
Adelaide is from October to November.
Diagnosis:
E. maculata 'Carmine Star' can be distinguished from the common
form of E. maculata in eastern Australia by it's decumbent sprawling habit
with non-interlacing branches.
Other notes:
The cultivar is widespread in cultivation in Adelaide at the
time of writing (May 1985). It has good drought resistance but may burn in
heavier frosts. It is also known to be tolerant of humidity. Vegetative
means must be used to preserve the cultivar form.
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.
Anigozanthos 'Unity'
Anigozanthos 'Unity' has flower stems to ca. 1.5m tall, mostly
glabrous with a few scattered plumose purple hairs becoming more dense
towards the flowers. The flowers are in simple racemes on pedicels to ca.
6mm long. The woolly hairs on the ovary are red with some black tips. The
hairs become less dense towards the perianth lobes allowing equal dominance
of yellow green hairs. The perianth tube is ca. 40mm long, glabrous inside
above the middle and with simple hairs below the middle some of these with
sellate tips. The perianth lobes are ca. 10mm long with plumose silvery
grey hairs inside. The anthers are about the same length as the filaments,
the connective tipped with a small gland-like appendage. There are ca. 5
ovules per locule.
Diagnosis:
The flowers of Anigozanthos 'Unity' are similar in shape to A.
rufus but are longer with a slightly more prominent ovary. The flowers are
a much darker red than A. rufus and less uniform in colour with the upper
half of the tube showing yellow green hairs more the colour of those in A.
flavidus. Unlike A. flavidus, the stems of Anigozanthos 'Unity' are hairy
but the hairs are darker and there are more of them than in A. flavidus
and they are fewer than in A. rufus. There are two other cultivars form the
same hybrid cross. Anigozanthos 'Red Cross' and Anigozanthos 'Velvet
Harmony'. Anigozanthos 'Red Cross' is of a similar height with individual
flowers ca. 30mm long. It is most easily distinguished from Anigozanthos
'Unity' by the presence of a very distinct bright yellow patch at the base
of the flower. Anigozanthos 'Velvet Harmony' has flowers with a tube ca.
25-27mm long which appear a darker colour due to the thicker hairs on the
perianth. The flower stem is also more branched in Anigozanthos 'Velvet
Harmony'.
Anigozanthos 'Regal Claw'
This cultivar grows to 1.5m tall (flower stem). The leaves are
ca. 25cm long by 5-10mm wide and glabrous. The flowers are in terminal
clusters on a double-headed inflorescence. The individual flowers are ca.
40mm long. In bud the flowers are covered in a dense covering of red
plumose hairs but as the flower grows and matures these hairs become more
scattered making the flower appear more orange. Flowers appear over most of
the year with main flush in October.
Diagnosis:
Anigozanthos preissii: Plant up to 0.3m wide, leaves 30-50cm long,
nearly terete.
Leaves smooth, deciduous.
Flower stem to 0.6m, once forked, covered in short woolly hairs.
Flowers 5-6cm long.
Anigozanthos 'Regal Claw': Plant up to 0.4m wide
Leaves to 25cm long, thin and straplike, glabrous and not deciduous.
Flower stem to 1.5m long, branched. Stem smooth becoming woolly at top.
Flowers up to 5cm long.
Anigozanthos flavidus: Plant to 1.0m wide
Leaves up to 1.0m long, straplike, glabrous and not deciduous.
Flower stem branched but smooth up to branched area.
Flowers 3-4cm long.
Callistemon viminalis 'Rose Opal'
Callistemon 'Rose Opal' is a dwarf and compact form of C.
viminalis growing to 1.5 - 1.8m high by 1m wide. The inflorescence is rosy
red which readily distinguishes the cultivar from the usual coloured forms
of C. viminalis. The inflorescence is 70-80mm long. Flowering is in spring
and autumn.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is distinguished from the other forms of C.
viminalis by its compact habit and flower colour.
Other notes:
The small and compact habit of this cultivar is of great value
for smaller gardens. In nearly twenty years of trials it has proved to be
stable in colour, form and height. The cultivar is frost tolerant to at
least -5?C and is drought hardy once established. Specimens have also been
lodged at the Queensland Herbarium (BRI 153960, BRI 279024). This cultivar
must be propagated by vegetative means to preserve the cultivar form.
Xerochrysum bracteatum 'Wanetta Sunray'
Upright shrub with yellow everlasting daisy flowers around 7cm in diameter.