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.
Correa 'Mama Maria'
The mature plant is 60 cm x 1. 5 m with a rounded shape and is very compact and dense. Leaves simple narrow elliptical, dark-green, 32 mm x 10 mm, petioles 5 mm, leaf apices obtuse, leaf bases oblique, venation reticulate but barely visible, margins entire. Calyx hemispherical 4 mm x 3
mm, green coloured with scattered tiny rust-coloured stellate hairs and minutely toothed, pedicels to 3 mm. Corolla cylindrical 14 mm from calyx to tip, rose pink covered with rose-coloured stellate hairs with pale green tips. Stamens strongly exerted with oblong yellow anthers with longitudinal
dehiscence and pale green filaments. Style green, slightly shorter than the stamens. Flowering begins in February and continues through autumn.
Diagnosis:
This plant has an affinity to both parent plants. The flower colour is a brighter pink than either parent plant and C. 'Mama Maria' has pale green tips unlike C. 'Dusky Bells' which has uniform pink throughout the length of the corolla but like C. decumbens which has green tips. Flowers stand out
horizontally from stems in this hybrid while C. decumbens has flowers which stand upright and at a number of angles on stems and C. 'Dusky Bells' has flowers which hang down from stems. Leaves are an intergrade between the two parent plants, having the narrow elliptical shape of C. decumbens although longer and wider.
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.
Lomandra confertifolia 'Lime Tuff'
A small clumping grass-like perennial with arching leaves. Fragrant yellow flowers on spikes.
Lomandra longifolia 'LM400'
Grasslike shrub with blue grey foliage and small yellow flowers from September to October.
Correa 'Kiss Me Kate'
Compact low-growing, small plant. Mature leaves opposite, 16mm
x 15 mm, cordate, apex obtuse, margin wavy, dark glossy green and glabrous
on top, visible oil glands and scattered stellate hairs on the margins.
Underside of leaves paler green, with scattered dark stellate hairs.
Petiole 3mm, light green, covered with dark stellate hairs. Calyx 4 mm x 7
mm, tan coloured, square shaped, no calyx teeth present, covered with
numerous small stellate hairs. Pedicel 4mm similar to calyx. Corolla 24 mm
x 10 mm (just above petal split), rose pink colour covered with numerous
small stellate hairs. Corolla throat paler pink, glabrous. Stamens 8,
exerted from the corolla, 26 mm long, white, widened towards the base.
Anther dark coloured, 1.5 mm long. Style 27 mm long, filament very fine and
white. Flowering from January onwards with a peak flowering in March/April.
Diagnosis:
Thought to be a hybrid between C. ‘Federation Belle’ and C.
‘Dusky Bells’. This hybrid differs from C. ‘ Federation Belle ’ which has a
pink and cream flower colour and the pink is slightly more orange in C. ‘
Kiss-Me-Kate ’ . Leaves of C. ‘ Federation Belle ’ are larger with apices
more acute and the underside is paler green.
Differs from C. ‘ Dusky Bells ’ which has longer and narrower flowers and
the flowers are slightly darker pink. Calyx is green rather than tan and
leaves are longer, narrower and elliptical in shape.
RHS Colour Chart 1995:
Corolla: 58C Mature
Leaves: 137A/B
Correa 'Marianne'
Upright medium-sized shrub to approximately 1.5 m x 1.5 m with
a moderately open habit. Branchlets sparsely tomentose with tan-coloured
stellate hairs becoming brown and glabrous with age. Long internodes up to
48 mm add to the openness of the foliage. Simple elliptical leaves, 27 mm x
13 mm, petioles to 6 mm. Leaf apices acute, leaf bases oblique, venation
reticulate, margins entire.Upper surfaces of mature leaves dark green and
glabrous with defined pits (oil glands). Lower surfaces of mature leaves
pale green and glabrous with occasional scattered white stellate hairs.
Upper surfaces of young leaves mid green, glabrous with scattered white and
tan stellate hairs becoming rust-coloured and more concentrated at margins.
Lower surfaces of young leaves covered in dense tomentum of rust-coloured
stellate hairs. Calyx hemispherical, apiculate, densely tomentose, pedicels
tomentose up to 5 mm with tiny tomentose bracts at base of pedicel. Corolla
cylindrical 20 mm x 7 mm, dull rose pink with a fine tomentum of rose
coloured stellate hairs grading to almost transparent on the dull green
tips. Tips of corolla not reflexed. Stamens markedly exserted 4 x 10 mm and
4 x 5 mm. Style longer than stamens 17 mm from margin of corolla. Anthers
oblong spathulate, yellow-green, margins recurved. Flowering from October
onwards in most districts and sporadic throughout the year.
Diagnosis:
This correa hybrid differs from all varieties of C. lawrenceana
and from C. baeuerlenii. The leaves are closest in size to C. lawrenceana
var. grampiana but the leaf tips differ. Leaf tips are acute as for C.
baeuerlenii. The calyx of C. 'Marianne' has four distinct lobes similar to
C. lawrenceana var glandulifera but is not as bulbous and is larger and is
nothing like the distinctive calyx of C. baeuerlenii. Flower colour is pink
and green. The only C. lawrenceana varieties which have red flowers are C.
lawrenceana var. rosea and C. lawrenceana var. cordifolia. C. baeuerlenii
has green flowers so the flower colour must come from the C. lawrenceana
parent.