Correa reflexa var. speciosa 'Carmen'
Plant size: 400mm (h) x 300mm (w) Flowers: Deep red (carmine with yellow tip) Flower size: 38mm long x 15mm diameter Flowering time: April-July Form: Moderately dense
Correa reflexa var. speciosa 'Carmen' has similar flower to C. 'Red Empress' which come from the Brisbane Ranges but the flower is larger and more tapered. Its leaves are light green heart shaped 26mm x 17mm recurved edges. It is the size and shape of the flower that distinguishes it from all others. Anthers just exserted, calyx is semi spherical. Frost hardiness: Medium
Grevillea 'Poorinda Beauty'
This plant will grow to a height of about 2m, however a
tendency to produce long straggly branches has been noted. Leaves are
smooth and grey-green on upper surface being very densely covered in silky
hairs on the underside. Stems are covered wtih silky hairs. Each leaf is
about 1.5cm long by about 3mm wide and pungent.
Diagnosis:
Flowers, red grading to yellow towards the limb, borne in very
dense clusters. Individual flowers are 1cm long, styles deep pink, are
between 1.8 - 2cm long. The flowers are said to be sterile. This cultivar
can be distinguished from its parents in that the flower clusters are more
dense than either of its parents, and these clusters tend to be more spread
out along the branches.
G.'Poorinda Beauty' is of the same cross as G. 'Poorinda Splendour' and G.
'Poorinda Wonder', however it is not known whether the same forms of the
respective species were used. This cultivar differs from both G. 'Poorinda
Splendour' and G. 'Poorinda Wonder' in leaf size. Leaves of this cultivar
are about 1.5cm long compared with 2 - 3cm leaves for both G. 'Poorinda
Splendour' and G. 'Poorinda Wonder'. Flower colour is only different in
that the colour of the perianth tube is a clear bright yellow compared to
the duller colour of both G.'Poorinda Splendour' and G. 'Poorinda Wonder'.
Grevillea 'Electric Velvet'
Open shrub, 1.5 m (h) x 1.2 m (w)
Flowers:
Terminal pendulous bottle brush type flowers ca 35–40mm in
diameter x 80–100mm long from Jun–Jan
Foliage colour:
Linear terete, much divided grey-green
Comparators:
Grevillea oligomera, G. magnifica
Reasons for distinctiveness:
Grevillea 'Electric Velvet' differs from G.
oligomera in its more open, spreading habit with grey-green, mostly divided
leaves, and in its large bottlebrush blue-grey and pink flowers being held
on arching to cascading leafless branches just beyond the foliage. It
differs from Grevillea magnifica in its far smaller and spreading habit,
and in its flowers being held in an arching to pendulous habit just beyond
the foliage.
Grevillea 'Wendy Sunshine'
Habit/description: A grey-green, low-growing, dense, shrub
Size: 0.3-0.5 m H x 1-1.5m W Flower colour: Pink-red Flower size: 46mm; confloresence 170mm
Flowering time: Jul-Jan Frost hardiness: High
In cultivation since: 2003
Where has it been tested? Melbourne, Sydney
Distinguished from G bipinnatifida by its fine
divided foliage and its pink/red hairy flowers on long stems beyond the
foliage. Distinguished from G. thyrsoides by its larger, coarser and
greener leaves and its larger flowers.
Comparators:
G bipinnatifida, G. thyrsoides
Boronia 'Tyalge Ruby'
Small shrub. Leaves strongly fragrant (citronella), 7-11
lobed, to 2.5cm long. Leaflets 8 - 10 mm long, oil glands on upper surface,
small hairs (sparse) on margins. Flowers usually 4 petals, 4 stamens and 4
carpels but occasionally 5 petals, 9 stamens and 5 carpels.
Diagnosis:
Boronia 'Tyalge Ruby' differs from B. muellerii by having
smaller but strongly fragrant leaves, like B. citriodora. It differs from
B. pilosa in having fragrant leaves. It has smaller leaves than B.
citriodora and B. pinnata. It has larger leaves than B. citrata and B.
'Sunset Serenade' but is also more fragrant than the latter.
Correa reflexa var. reflexa 'Lemon and Lime'
Note:
Received as Correa 'Wilson's Promontory Lime and Gold'
Low growing shrub to ca. 60 cm x 2 m with a dense habit.
Branchlets highly tomentose with rust coloured stellate hairs becoming
brown and glabrous with age. Simple cordate leaves, 30 mm x 24 nun, shortly
petiolate. Leaf apices obtuse, leaf bases cordate, venation reticulate,
entire margins with rust-coloured stellate hairs. Upper surfaces of mature
leaves dark green and scabridulous with scattered white stellate hairs
becoming more concentrated at margins. Upper surfaces of young leaves
densely tomentose with rust-coloured stellate hairs. Young growth may have
pink tinge. Lower surfaces of leaves densely tomentose with white stellate
hairs and scattered rust-coloured stellate hairs becoming more concentrated
on the veins and margins. Foliaceous bracts strongly reflexed to enclose
flower. Peduncles axillary, slender, terminating in a pair of foliaceous
bracts clasping the flower. Calyx hemispherical, 4 mm high, fawn coloured
with scattered rust-coloured stellate hairs. Corolla obconical 32 mm x 12
mm, lemon with lime green tips covered with fine tomentum of white-coloured
stellate hairs becoming rusty at tips. Anthers shortly exerted, narrow
oblong and obtuse. Peak flowering is from March to July in most districts.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar conforms to descriptions for C. reflexa var.
reflexa found naturally in the Gippsland area but is distinctive by its
unique flower colour. The usual green form of C. reflexa is uniformly
coloured from calyx to tip.
Anigozanthos 'Bush Glow'
This cultivar has flower scapes that reach 0.7m tall. The
individual flowers are a greenish-yellow. The flowers are covered with deep
red coloured hairs that give an orange appearance to the flowers.
Diagnosis:
A. humilis:
Small clumps 100mm wide by 100-500mm tall (flower scape).
Leaves 10mm wide by 200mm long; margins hairy, leaf surface hairy to
glabrous. Flower stems to 500mm; covered in wooly hairs; stems sometimes
branched. Flowers are tubular to 50mm long; covered in short hairs;
perianth lobes turned back; cream, yellow, orange pink or red in colour.
A. 'Bush Glow':
Leaves to 7mm wide by 400mm long; glabrous. Flower stems to
700mm tall, branched. Flowers tubular, 35-40mm long, perianth lobes
partially recurved, perianth greenish-yellow and densely covered with deep
red hairs, becoming short and sparse on the lower stem and red to red-black
in colour.
A. flavidus:
Clumps to 1m across and up to 2m tall. Leaves are 20-40mm wide
by up to 1m long; glabrous. Flower stem up to 2m; glabrous where branching
starts; flowers tubular, 30-40mm long, perianth lobes not curved back, red,
orange, pink,yellow or green in colour.