Callistemon 'Shannon'
This is a moderately open, medium to large shrub with a
columnar growth habit which grows to approximately 2-3 metres high by 1-2
metres wide. Foliage is bright green and is particularly attractive with a
soft appearance. The bottle brush flowers form in small tight clusters from
October to November. Individual flowers are crimson and are 100mm long and
50mm in diameter.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar may be a C. viminalis hybrid. The large crimson
flowers and unusually soft appearance of the foliage creates a distinct
effect in comparison with other Callistemon cultivars.
Ceratopetalum gummiferum 'Johanna's Christmas'
This cultivar is a dwarf form of Ceratopetalum gummiferum. It is a small,dense shrub ca. 1m tall x 1m wide. The white flowers appear between October and January and as they die off, the calyx of each flower turns red.
DIAGNOSIS: As for C. gummiferum except for its dwarf habit (1m x 1m).
Ceratopetalum gummiferum 'White Christmas'
Diagnosis:
C. 'White Christmas' is only different from other known forms of C. gummiferum in that the calyx lobes do not exhibit the usual pink to red colouring. The calyx lobes remain white to green in colour throughout the
flowering and seed developing period. Habit is also identical to other known forms of C. gummiferum.
Ceratopetalum gummiferum 'Magenta Star'
This cultivar is a shrub to 3.5m tall by 3m wide. The new
growth is a dark magenta-purple which gradually fades as the leaves age.
The undersides of the leaves are a darker colour than the upper surfaces,
and the leaf margins hold the colouration even when the leaf ages. The
midveins of the leaves are a prominent red when the leaves are young and
these change to a prominent greenish-yellow as the leaves age.
Diagnosis:
The purplish appearance of the new growth is the most
distinctive feature of this cultivar; in usual forms it is green.
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:
Correa 'Snowbelle'
Correa ‘Snowbelle’ is a small to medium spreading shrub which will grow to approximately 1 metre high x 1.5 metres across. It has bell-shaped white flowers which occur over a long period from autumn to spring.
Chamelaucium uncinatum 'Munns'
This cultivar is of average vigour and has an erect habit. The
leaves are ca. 20-25mm long and much narrower than is normal for the
species. The flowers are ca. 20mm in diameter with a dark centre and a dark
pink edge on the petals. This cultivar flowers from August to November in
Western Australia and is the latest variety to flower.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar can be distinguished because of its narrower
foliage and the flower colour.
Grevillea 'Little Jessie'
A dense, grey-green, shrub 2-4 m high 2-4 m wide. Branchlets ascending, angular in cross-section, ribbed, slender, densely white silky-tomentose with brownish-green striations. Leaves 2.5-3.2 cm long, 1.8-2.4 cm wide, obovate, trisect ; leaf lobes 3, slightly pungent, grey-green; texture leathery. Conflorescence terminal or subterminal, mainly on the upper parts of the branch. Flowers: perianth 8.5 mm long, 2.2 mm
wide, pistil 30 mm long, style 27-28 mm long. Flower colour: buds grey-green, perianth pale-pink outside, the upper tepals deep red inside; limb creamy-yellow; style and style-end red; pollen-presenter yellowish;
overall effect is apricot-pink . Flowering occurs from July through to January. Infertile.
Diagnosis:
G. asparagoides differs in its open, cylindrical inflorescences with glandular hairs.
Similar hybrids:
Grevillea ‘Winpara Gold’.
G. ‘Winpara Gold has leaves twice-divided, perianths glabrous on the outside, hairy on the inside and yellow styles.
Callistemon 'Tin-Sal Glow'
Fairly open habit, 1.5 m wide by 3-5 m tall, many-stemmed with
a swollen base. Bark light grey, fissured. New growth pink. Spike
moderately open, c. 3.5 cm wide; axis hairy at first. Leaves narrowly
linear to oblanceolate, (3.0-) 3.5-5.5 cm long, c.0.32-0.77 cm wide,
margins slightly recurved (on herbarium specimens at least); reticulate
venation clearly visible. Stamens c. 4.8-5.4 cm, c. 1.5-2.1 cm long,
pinkish at the tips, almost white at the base. Anthers yellow. Fruit is
barrel-shaped ca 0.38-0.45 cm wide, ca 0.4 cm high, aperture not
constricted, surface smooth. Flowering time spring to autumn.
Diagnosis:
Characterised by the 'glowing' appearance of the new growth and
flower spikes (produced by the pale stamen bases). Its characteristics
compared to other forms are summarised in the following table:
C. 'Glasshouse Country'
C. recurvus
C. salignus
More red colouration in the flower
Paler flower colour
Flower colour
Shorter flower spikes: (c. 3.3-5.5cm not 5.0-5.5 (-7.0)cm)
Fewer flowers in spike
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Pinkish, not silvery green, new growth
Paler leaf colour
Smaller leaves
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Mostly longer leaves
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More spreading habit
Shorter habit
Grevillea 'Winpara Gem'
This cultivar is a dense shrub to 2m tall by up to 3m wide.
The leaves are grey green and deeply divided (almost to the midrib) and are
up to 6cm long. The leaf edges are rolled under. The venation under the
leaf is particularly prominent. Each leaf lobe has a short but pungent tip.
The upper surface of the leaf has scattered silky hairs while the lower
surface other than the veins is closely covered with a dense mat of closely
appressed silky hairs. The branchlets are also covered by fine hairs that
diminish as the wood matures. The flowers are in racemes ca. 25mm long
produced terminally on short lateral branchlets arising from the older
wood. This sometimes leads to the flowers being partially obscured by
younger growth. Individual flowers are densely packed on each raceme. The
perianth is dark in colour, but appears lighter due to the dense covering
of fine white hairs. The perianth is 7-8mm long and splits into four
segments. The reddish style is hooked when it first emerges but soon
straightens, measuring ca. 14mm long. Flowers are produced from April to
mid October.
Diagnosis:
G. olivacea:
5m tall and spreading. Leaves up to 70mm long x 20mm wide;
oblanceolate with an emarginate apex; short, very scattered silky hairs on
the upper surface but appearing glabrous; densely silky hairy on the upper
surface. Flowers in small compact racemes on older wood; racemes short and
rounded; perianth pale on the outside due to the dense coating of silky
hairs; inside perianth glabrous; style glabrous and red; flowers
winter/spring.
Grevillea 'Winpara Gem':
2m tall by up to 3m wide. Leaves up to 60mm long x
35mm wide at the widest point; regularly pinnatisect; lobes linear; lobes
1-2mm broad; scattered fine silky hairs above; moderately dense silky hairs
below. flowers in 25mm long racemes terminally on short branchlets arising
from older wood; racemes straight; perianth appears pale on outer surface
due to dense silky hairs; inside of perianth glabrous; style glabrous and
red; flowers April to mid October.
G. thelemanniana:
can vary in height but usually .3-1.2m tall by 2-3m wide.
Leaves from 15-50mm long by ca. 20mm wide; from 3 lobed to pinnatisect;
lobes linear; lobes 1-5mm broad; covered in fine silky hairs. Flowers in
50mm long racemes terminally on newer wood; racemes reflexed; perianth
glabrous on the outer surface; inside of perianth densely hairy; style
glabrous and scarlet; flowers May to September.
The leaves more closely resemble G. thelemanniana but are not as much
divided. Racemes are also similar but shorter in Grevillea 'Winpara Gem'.