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.
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.
Westringia fruticosa 'Morning Light'
This cultivar grows to 1m tall by up to 1m wide. It is a relatively compact shrub. The leaves are variegated, and the variegation is fairly consistent, in the form of a narrow band around the margin of the leaf. The flowering is not as prolific as it is for the usual form of the species.
Diagnosis:
Westringia 'Morning Light' is easily distinguished because of the variegated foliage.
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 '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.