Anigozanthos 'Red Cross'
This cultivar is a vigorous plant with flowering scapes to
1.6m tall. The flowering stems are multi-branched, thin and tend to spread
as broad as they are high. Up to 7600 individual flowers have been recorded
for a mature plant of the cultivar, and they are a rich burgundy in colour.
This colour is produced by the dense covering of plumose hairs on the
flowers and much of the flowering stem, fading in colour and intensity as
they reach lower down the stem. The flowers have a bright yellow green
patch of colour near the pedicel. Individual flowers are up to 30cm long by
ca. 8mm wide at the widest point of the corolla. The corolla tube is
terminated by six perianth lobes which taper to a point. These lobes are
reflexed when the flower is fully opened. Inside the perianth segments are
yellow green as are the stamens. The stamens are more or less as long as
the perianth tube. Leaf like bracts occur frequently on the flowering stem
and regularly reach 30cm long. The foliage is also vigorous with leaves
from 36 to 60cm long by 10 to 40mm wide.
Diagnosis:
Anigozanthos 'Red Cross' shows the vigour and longevity of A.
flavidus. The flowers have the rich colouring of A. rufus. The cultivar is
larger than the maternal parent but does not reach the proportions of a
well-grown plant of A. flavidus. The anthers are yellow green as are those
of all the A. flavidus hybrids, the orange anthers of A. flavidus being
recessive.There are two other cultivars that arise from this cross,
Anigozanthos 'Harmony' and Anigozanthos 'Unity'. The quickest and easiest
distinguishing feature is that Anigozanthos 'Red Cross' has a very distinct
yellow patch at the base of the flower. Anigozanthos 'Velvet Harmony' is a
much deeper colour while Anigozanthos 'Unity' has larger flowers, to 40mm
long as compared to 30mm for A. 'Red Cross'.
Anigozanthos 'Dwarf Delight'
This cultivar is a compact plant with much branched flower
stems to .8m tall. The flowering stems are covered with plumose hairs.
These hairs are sparsely scattered at the base of the stem and around the
leaf-like bracts on the stem. The hairs are reddish in colour. The perianth
segments of the flower are green-yellow but appear apricot when seen
through the reddish hairs. These two colours contrast well. The leaves are
up to 25cm long by 1cm wide.
Diagnosis:
Anigozanthos 'Dwarf delight', which grows to 0.8m tall, is
midway in height between the ca. 0.3m of A. onycis and ca. 2m of A.
flavidus. The flowering stems of the cultivar are sparsely covered with
plumose hairs for much of their length, becoming dense towards the
individual flowers. The flowering stems of the cultivar are sparsely
covered with plumose hairs for much of their length, becoming dense towards
the individual flowers. A. onycis, is covered in dense, plumose hairs for
the full length of the flower spike while A. flavidus has them only on the
perianth segments of the flower and for a short distance below on the stem.
The majority of the stem in this species is glabrous. The leaf-like bracts
on the stem are the size of A. onycis. The flowers are intermediate in size
between those of the two parents.
Anigozanthos 'Mini Red'
It is a perennial rosetted herb growing to a height of
approximately 600mm. The leaves are green, long and narrow being about
300mm long and about 8mm wide. The flowers are produced in compact,
branched terminal clusters. Individual flowers are red and about 35-40mm in
length.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from other known forms of
Anigozanthos flavidus in its small, compact habit and dense flower
clusters.
Anigozanthos 'Patricia'
Note:
Received as A. 'Mister X', possibly also known as 'Mini-X'
Leaves glossy green to 20 cm long; inflorescence to 0.6 m tall
and branched between 4 and 10 times, lower stem green and sparsely covered
with red hairs, becoming denser closer to the flowers giving red brown
colour; individual flowers to 4 cm long, overall colour effect a dull brown
but a brighter red at the base of unopened perianth tube; flowering season
September - November in W.A.
DIAGNOSIS:
Anigozanthos 'Patricia' to 0.6 m tall; flowers appear dull red/brown
individual flowers ca. 4cm long;inflorescence branches 4 - 10 times
Anigozanthos 'Unity' to 1.5 m tall; dark red flowers; tube ca. 4 cm long;
inflorescence branches 20 - 30 times.
Anigozanthos 'Red Cross'to 1.6 m tall; flowers burgundy with yellow patch
at base of perianth; individual flowers ca. 3 cm long
Anigozanthos 'Pink Joey', another wild selection, differs from other known
forms of this species in its small stature and pale purplish pink flowers.
It attains a height of only 50 cm and has somewhat narrow leaves 16 - 33 cm
long and 0.4 - 0.6 cm broad; the much branched panicle is 20 cm long and
many flowered.
Callistemon 'Harkness'
The leaves are entire and up to 130mm long by up to 12mm wide.
The flowers are produced in long dense "bottlebrush" clusters. These
clusters are produced in bunches of up to 11 "brushes". Individual
"bottlebrushes" are red and up to 150mm long by about 55mm wide. The
stamens are the colourful parts of the flower.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from other Callistemon cultivars in
its long dense and clustered red inflorescences.
Anigozanthos 'Autumn Mystery'
The flowering stems are up to 1m tall with sparse stellate
hairs towards the base, becoming woolly and plumose towards the flowers.
The flowers are in simple terminal racemes, on pedicels to ca. 5mm long.
The hairs are plumose and woolly, having red tips with yellow bases over
the ovary changing to yellow tips with red bases toward the perianth lobes.
The anthers are linear and more or less the same length as the filaments,
the connective tipped with a gland like appendage. The ovules are numerous.
The flowering season is the spring months.
Diagnosis:
The flowers of Anigozanthos 'Autumn Mystery' are longer than for
A. flavidus but shorter than A. manglesii. They attain a similar shape and
width to A. manglesii with a less prominent ovary than A. flavidus. The
base of the perianth tube is red on the ovary but doesn't immediately
become green above like A. manglesii. Instead, the hairs are mixed red with
a greater portion of yellow green hairs the colour of those on A. flavidus
. Anigozanthos 'Space Age' is a cultivar resulting from the same hybrid
cross and has somewhat taller stature and indistinctly larger flowers than
Anigoizanthos 'Autumn Mystery' (perianth tube ca. 60mm versus ca. 52mm).
The flowers of Anigozanthos 'Space Age' are wholly deep red, but those of
Anigozanthos 'Autumn Mystery' appear yellow to brown with touches of red.
Anigozanthos 'Early Spring'
This cultivar has flowering stems to about 1.1m tall, mostly
glabrous with a covering of dark purple tomentose hairs. The flowers are on
terminal branchlets which are divaricately branched. The flowers have
pedicels to about 4mm long. The wool on the flowers is dark red, plumose
over the whole surface with occasional yellow green hair giving them a
slightly dusty appearance. The perianth tube is around 45mm long, glabrous
inside and minutely scabrous dotted below the middle. The perianth loves
are about 10mm long with dense woolly yellow green and sometimes orange
plumose hairs inside. The anthers ar shorter than the filaments, the
connective tipped with a reduced gland like appendage. The ovules are about
6 per locule.
Diagnosis:
The flowers of Anigozanthos 'Early Spring' have the colouring of
A. rufus. They are similar in length to A. flavidus but broader than A.
flavidus or A. viridis and not as broad as A. rufus. The bracts are
narrower and less hairy than A. rufus but broader than those in A. flavidus
. The stems are more hairy than A. rufus. The leaves are much broader and
not as long as A. viridis. The ovary is less prominent than in A. flavidus
. Anigozanthos 'Early Spring' does not grow as tall as A. rufus.
Correa glabra var. turnbullii 'Mt Barker Beauty'
A dense, compact shrub approximately 1.5m high x 1m wide, with
glossy dark green foliage. Leaves are ovate to elliptical with obtuse tips,
50 mm x 18 mm in size, glabrous and glossy on top, pale green and glabrous
below with defined venation. Leaves when crushed have a fruity smell.
Flowers occur singly on 4 mm petioles at the ends of short branchlets. The
tubular corolla is 27 mm x 6 mm in size, crimson for most of its length
then grading to pale green on the tips, which are barely recurved. Stamens
are exserted. Flowers gradually turn rose-pink as they age. The calyx is
green, glabrous, square in cross-section with 4 minute teeth at the points
where the petals are fused. Peak flowering is from Autumn to Winter with
sporadic flowering throughout the year.
Diagnosis:
This variety was selected for its compact shape and glossy dark
green foliage.
Correa 'Vanilla Ice'
Dense, spreading low-growing shrub approximately 50 cm high x
1 m wide, with strongly veined mid green ovate to cordate leaves with
obtuse tips, 32 mm x 20 mm in size, glabrous and somewhat scabrous on top,
pale green and velvety underneath with defined venation. The tubular
corolla is creamy white with a light covering of light tan coloured
stellate hairs at the tips, which are recurved, exposing pale pink on the
inside of the petal tips. Stamens are as long as the petals and barely
exerted. The green papery calyx is square in cross-section with 4
triangular pointed lobes. Petioles and pedicels are 2-3 mm long. Flowers
Summer to Winter with spasmodic flowering all through the year.
Diagnosis:
Thought to be a hybrid between C. alba and C. calycina, C.
‘Vanilla Ice’ differs from both these species in both leaf and flower
colour and form. C. calycina leaves are longer, elliptical and thinner and
the flowers are lime green in colour. The calyx is also larger. C. alba var
alba has grayish obovate leaves and white flowers with strongly recurved
petals split to the unlobed calyx.
Correa 'Ian Fardon'
Large spreading dense shrub with upright habit to 1.5 m x 2 m.
It has long ascendant stems. Leaves are on short petioles, dark green,
lanceolate, shiny, glabrous, leathery and convex on top, pale green and
velvety with tiny rusty stellate hairs underneath and having obtuse tips.
28 mm x 8 mm in size. It has the typical aromatic smell of leaves in the C.
glabra group. The ends of young branches are rusty tomentose. Flowers on
short pedicels occur singly at the ends of short branchlets. The pedicels
also have a pair of deciduous bracts. The corolla, which is 2.2 cm x 0.8 cm
in size, is reddish pink with mid green tips and a band of purplish green
in between. The tips are barely recurved. Stamens are exerted. The calyx is
green and cup-shaped with minute teeth. The calyx folds over maturing seed.
Peak flowering is from Summer to Winter with spasmodic flowering most of
year.
Diagnosis:
It appears to be a garden hybrid with C. glabra var turnbullii
and C. reflexa as possible parents. This variety differs from C. glabra var
turnbullii, in that the leaves are smaller and narrower and have some rusty
tomentum on the underside. The flowers appear to be longer and have a band
of a third colour on the corolla. It still has the characteristic aromatic
smell of C. glabra varieties and the flower colour is similar to other C.
glabra var turnbullii forms.