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.
Boronia 'Telopea Valley Star'
Note:
Formerly B. 'Telopea Star'
This cultivar grows to plus/minus 1m tall by plus/minus 60cm
wide. It is fast growing, has an erect habit, and has quite long distances
(6-8cm) between nodes. These long internodal distances can tend to make the
shrub look sparse. The cultivar has round stems, and the newer growth has a
covering of fine brown hairs. The leaves are pinnate and glabrous, with the
leaflets being from plus/minus 2.5cm long by plus/minus .7cm wide. The
terminal leaflet is longer, being from plus/minus 3.5cm long by plus/minus
1cm wide. The leaflets are oblong-elliptical to lanceolate in shape.
The flowers are borne in umbels of 3-6 flowers either terminally on the
branchlets or in the leaf axils. They are pink in colour and star-shaped
and open well to plus/minus 1.5cm in diameter. Flowers are profuse in the
spring but odd flowers are found during most of the year.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar has only a light covering of brownish hairs on the
newer growth and the leaves are glabrous. B. mollis has a denser covering
of hairs on the new growth which extends for some distance down the stems.
The leaves on B. mollis have stellate hairs on the under side of the
leaves. The leaves of the cultivar when checked against specimens of B.
mollis are generally much larger. Whereas B. fraseri has many trifoliate
leaves, the leaves of the cultivar are truly pinnate. B. 'Telopea Valley
Star' has the long internodes of B. mollis. B. fraseri has much more
compact internodal distances, while B. fraseri has square sectioned stems.
The cultivar is more robust than either of its purported parents.
Comparators:
Boronia mollis NBG 006544, 002848; B. fraseri NBG
065889, 065890.
Boronia megastigma 'Virtuoso'
Boronia megastigma 'Virtuoso' is a colour form of B. megastigma differing from the norm in the very dark to near black coloured outside of the petals, anthers and carpel. The flowering period and form of the cultivar in all other respects is the same as for B. megastigma.
Boronia megastigma 'Jack Maguire's Red'
Note:
Formerly Boronia 'Uncle Jack's Red'
This cultivar is a flower colour form of the species. The flowers are a deep orange red on the outside of the perianth. All other features of the shrub are as for B. megastigma.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar can be distinguished by the flower colour (described in the colour code below).
Boronia mollis 'Lorne Pride'
The deep pink flowers are produced profusely in late winter
and through into spring. Occasional flowers are produced throughout the
rest of the year. The clusters of flowers are borne in the leaf axils.
Diagnosis:
Boronia 'Lorne Pride' is distinct from other forms of B. mollis
because of its rounded and compact, much branched habit.