Grevillea 'Superb'
This cultivar is a shrub of medium density, growing to plus/minus 1m tall by 1-2m wide. The foliage is very similar to G. 'Robyn Gordon' (a cross with the same parent species) and it is virtually impossible to distinguish between them. The inflorescence can measure plus/minus 15cm long by plus/minus 9cm wide. The individual flowers are moderately densely packed on the raceme and completely encircle the rachis. Individual flowers measure 4.5 to 5cm long. The pedicel and perianth are also covered in dense, closely appressed hairs. The style appears glabrous but does have scattered, very short, silky hairs. The inflorescences are borne teminally. The buds are dark in colour before opening. The inflorescences are very similar to G. 'Robyn Gordon' except in colouration. The flowers are salmon in colour with the perianth changing to red as they
age. The styles are red with yellow tips.
Diagnosis:
Vegetatively this cultivar is very similar to G. 'Robyn Gordon'. The difference is in the flower colour as described above.
Grevillea banksii 'Kingaroy Slippers'
The leaves are the same as G. banksii. The flowers are borne
in the normal terminal inflorescences for G. banksii. Individual florets
are pink and about 15mm long and the dark pink styles are about 40mm long.
It flowers throughout the year with a main flowering period during summer.
Diagnosis:
The cultivar is different form other known normal forms of G.
banksii in that as the anther unfurls, instead of the limb releasing the
stigma and the perianth splitting so the anther can be released, the
perianth tube breaks away from just below the ovary, and still being
attached at the limb and stigma, is carried away form its normal position.
Self pollination occurs as fertile seed is produced.
Grevillea 'Golden Sparkle'
Grevillea 'Golden Sparkle' was described by H and J Sparks
(Your Garden February 1973) in these terms. "This Grevillea which we have
named 'Golden Sparkle' grows 4ft to 5 ft and has a typical spider flower of
orange-red. In spring and autumn the foliage tips turn a striking reddish
bronze, which adds to its beauty".
Diagnosis:
The specimen presented for registration appears to be a cultivar
of Grevillea speciosa (Knight) D. McGillivray. It differs from this species
in the leaf variegation which apparently sugggested its cultivar name. The
variegation consist of an irregular border or blotches of golden yellow on
a background of somewhat pale to normal deep green.
Grevillea juniperina 'Molonglo'
A low spreading shrub 1m high x 1m+ across; branches pubescent, arcuate to declinate, the longer branches becoming decumbent; leaves 8-20mm long and 1-2mm wide, linear-subulate, somewhat angular, with pungent apices, the upper surfaces glabrous, the lower pubescent and almost
hidden by the revolute margins; flowers apricot in sessile racemes, terminal on short lateral branches; perianth tubes 10-12mm long, silky pubescent outside styles ca 30mm long red.
Diagnosis:
Grevillea juniperina 'Molonglo' differs from G. juniperina (yellow flowered prostrate form)in its spreading, not prostrate habit, its narrower, more pungent leaves with closely revolute margins and in its larger apricot flowers with red styles. It also differs from other forms of G. juniperina in its low spreading habit and in flower colour.
Grevillea 'Little Thicket'
Individual plants are about 1m high by about 1m wide, however,
dense thickets are formed due to the growth of neighbouring suckers. Tufts
of new shoots appear up to 5m from a main stem. The leaves are green on the
upper surface and silvery on the underside due to dense hairs. They are up
to 18mm long and 3mm wide. The leaf edges are rolled under. The pale yellow
flowers which have a red tinge are 8mm long while the yellow styles are
20mm long. The flowers are produced in small terminal clusters. On
occasions the flowers do not always form but abort at an early stage.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from known naturally occurring forms
of the species in its low suckering habit.
Grevillea 'Patricia Marie'
The leaves are the same for G. banksii. The flowers are formed
into large dense multiple clusters and these are produced terminally.
Individual florets are pink and about 15mm long and the deep pink styles
are about 45mm long.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from the usual forms of G. banksii
in its clustered shorter inflorescences. They do not taper form the base to
the tip as does G. banksii.
Grevillea 'Pink Surprise'
Leaves are compound and shiny green on the upper surface. Each
leaf consists of + 20 long narrow lobes, occasionally these being
subdivided into two. Some lobes end in a small hooked point, others in a
straight point. The overall length of a leaf is + 30cm and the width +
10cm. Individual lobes are about 10cm long and 2-4mm wide. The leaf edges
are rolled under. Flowers are pink with long cream to very pale green
styles. Flowers are about 15cm long and approximately 5cm wideand produced
in dense terminal racemes. Individual flowers are borne in tight pairs and
are woolly. Perianth tube and limb together measure about 1.3cm long,
styles are up to 3.5 cm long.
Diagnosis:
G. 'Pink Surprise' can be distinguished from its parents by its
pink flower colour
Callistemon pachyphyllus 'Smoked Salmon'
In cultivation the cultivar is slightly more compact than the
type and attains a height of 1.5m. All morphological characteristics of the
cultivar are as for C. pachyphyllus. The flowers are a salmony pink to
shell pink in colour and are plus/minus 8cm long by plus/minus 6cm wide. It
is stated that in Brisbane this cultivar has some flowers for most of the
year with two main flowering peaks, in summer and from autumn to early
winter. The flowers during the summer months are slightly paler in colour.
Diagnosis:
The cultivar differs from the normal red and green flowering
forms of C. pachyphyllus in the salmon pink to shell pink colour of its
flowers.
Callistemon 'Kings Park Special'
This cultivar grows into small bushy trees from 3 to 5m tall
by 3 to 4m wide. The inflorescences are in multiple heads on brach
terminals and are bright red in colour. They are up to 13cm long by 6cm
wide. The flowering season in Western Australia is from mid September to
October with a smaller flowering in autumn. The leaves are up to 110mm long
by up to 15mm wide. The shrub is much branched and the branchlets are
slightly pendulous.
Diagnosis:
There is some similarity between Callistemon 'Harkness' (syn.
'Gawler hybrid') and Callistemon 'Kings Park Special'. Callistemon 'Kings
Park Special' thrives in an open position and is fast growing. It responds
well to pruning after flowering and the original plant has been severely
pruned on two occasions and recovered well. This cultivar sets fertile seed
but must be grown by vegetative means to preserve the cultivar form.
Callistemon 'Kings Park Special' has proved to be more floriferous in
western Australia than Callistemon 'Harkness'. It is adaptable to a wide
range of soil types though can suffer frost damage to the younger shoot
growth when grown in areas that experience severe frost. This latter factor
could well be an indicator of C. viminalis being involved in the parentage
of this cultivar.
Callistemon 'Packers Selection'
This cultivar is a fast growing and pendulous shrub ca. 1.5m
tall by 1.5m wide. Inflorescences are deep red in colour and ca. 9cm long,
but narrow in diameter (ca. 3cm). Flowering is spasmodic all year (as
observed under conditions in WA) with profuse flowering in October,
January-February and March-April (also in WA).
Diagnosis:
Callistemon 'Packers Selection' closely resembles C. subulatus.
It is possible to distinguish the cultivar by its very pendulous habit
compared with the more erect habit of C. subulatus and by the much longer
inflorescences. The flowers are a deep red fading as they age.
Comparators:
Callistemon subulatus CBG 7801196. NSW South Coast,
14Km north of Yowrie PO on north side of Tuross River.