Chamelaucium uncinatum 'Newmarracarra'
The cultivar is a robust shrub, growing vigorously to 2m tall
with a spread of 2-3m. The newer stems are tinged pink, and the leaves are
long, being between 30-40mm in length. This cultivar is an early flowering
variety with large, full petals. The flower is rose pink with dark centres,
though flower colour varies from when a flower has freshly opened to when
it starts to wither with age. Thbe flower colour is blotched on the older
flowers. The flowers measure ca. 22mm in diameter.
DIAGNOSIS:
Banksia 'Giant Candles'
The leaves of this cultivar are plus/minus 4.5cm long and are
intermediate between the two parents, being whorled around the stem as in
B. ericifolia and with the revolute margins of B. spinulosa. The leaves are
not toothed. The inflorescence of this cultivar is its most striking
attribute. A single inflorescence can measure 38-40cm long. When fresh the
inflorescence resembles B. ericifolia. The individual flowers are rich
orange in colour and 2-2.6cm long, as compared to the gold flowers with
black styles of B. spinulosa var. spinulosa. In Brisbane the flowering
period is from autumn through winter.
Callistemon citrinus 'Demesne Rowena'
This cultivar grows to 1.5m tall by 1.5m wide. It has a fairly
open habit. The flowers open to a deep red and lighten as they age to a
deep pink. Other features of the plant are as for C. citrinus.
Diagnosis:
The cultivar is another very attractive colour variant of C.
citrinus. The flower colour changing from red to deep pink is a very
distinctive feature of the cultivar as compared to the deep crimson of C
'Splendens' and the white flowers of C. 'White Anzac'.
Callistemon 'Mauve Mist'
This cultivar forms a dense shrub to a height of about 3m with
an equal or slightly wider spread. The leaves are entire and about 50mm
long by about 8mm wide.The new tip growth is pink and densely covered with
silky hairs.The flowers are produced in dense "bottlebrush " clusters. The
clusters are often produced in bunches. Individual "bottlebrushes"are
pinkish mauve and about 70mm long by about 50mm wide. The stamens are the
colourful part of the flower. It is reported that this cultivar will flower
as late as Christmas.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from Callistemon 'Reeve's Pink' in
flower colour. Callistemon 'Mauve Mist' has pinkish-mauve "brushes"
compared with pink for Callistemon 'Reeve's Pink'.
Grevillea 'Amethyst'
Grevillea 'Amethyst' is a compact rounded small shrub to 1m ×
1m.
Flowers:
Late winter to late spring, mauve-pink
Foliage:
Small linear simple leaves, upper surface mid-green.
Comparators:
Grevillea confertifolia, Grevillea sericea
Reasons for distinctiveness:
Grevillea confertifolia differs in having
sessile inflorescences and flowers with pistils slightly shorter (10–12.5
mm). Grevillea sericea has longer pistils (> 19 mm long) and less prickly
leaves.
Grevillea 'Amethyst'
Grevillea 'Amethyst' is a compact rounded small shrub to 1m ×
1m.
Flowers:
Late winter to late spring, mauve-pink
Foliage:
Small linear simple leaves, upper surface mid-green.
Comparators:
Grevillea confertifolia, Grevillea sericea
Reasons for distinctiveness:
Grevillea confertifolia differs in having
sessile inflorescences and flowers with pistils slightly shorter (10–12.5
mm). Grevillea sericea has longer pistils (> 19 mm long) and less prickly
leaves.
Acmena smithii 'BWNRED'
Large compact shrub up to 6m(h) x 4m(w) with reddish new growth and white flowers.
Anigozanthos 'Bush Ochre'
Compact growing Anigozanthos hybrid having an average height of 315mm with yellow and red flowers
Dianella tasmanica 'TR20'
Strappy leaved shrub grows to about 0.5m in diameter with wide leaves and large purple berries in spring and summer.
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