Grevillea 'Poorinda Elegance'
Leaves are a bright shiny green on upper surface, but covered
with dense silky hairs on underside. Each leaf is up to about 4cm long and
about 4-6mm wide and pungent. The edges are slightly rolled under. Flowers
are yellow with contrasting bright pink style, are produced in loose heads
on the ends of short branches. Short leaf-like bracts are usually seen
within each flower head. Individual flowers, yellow about 1.2cm long while
the bright pink styles are about 2.2cm long. Flowers are said to be
sterile.
Note:
This cultivar can be expected to grow to a height of about 1.5m by
about 2m wide.
Diagnosis:
The flower colours of yellow and bright pink distinguish this
cultivar from its assumed parents.
Grevillea 'Poorinda Belinda'
A shrub with laxly spreading to divaricate branches; leaves
15-25mm long,2-4mm broad, oblong to narrow elliptical, + acute with
scarcely pungent points, glabrous glossy and trinerved above, the margins
recurved; infloresence a short loose raceme, the rachis 7-8mm long,
pubescent; flowers on slender pubescent pedicals 5-7mm long; perianth tube
8-10mm long + 1mm diameter near the recurved limb, dilating to + 3mm
diameter below the middle, pubescent, the limb 2.25mm diameter, more
densely pubescent; ovary villous as is the 2mm long stipe; style + 20mm
long villous in the lower part with scattered hairs above, disc surrounding
stigma obicular 2mm diameter, glabrous.
Diagnosis:
Grevillea 'Poorinda Belinda' differs from G. juniperina chiefly
in its scarcely pungent + flat leaves; perianth tube more broadley dilated
below the middle; ovary and stipe villous, the stipe much less than 4mm
long, and inits hairy style.
Comparators:
Grevillea juniperina R.Br. 13M (Ca 21Km) from
Braidwood-Nerriga, New South Wales, D.W. Shoobridge, 28-10-1962 CBG 013054.
Notes:
Another attractive addition to the "Poorinda" range of cultivars and
one that is similiar at least in leaf shape to G. 'Poorinda Signet'. It can
be distinguished from that cultivar by the innocuous points of its leaves;
its shorter inflorescence and the hairy covering of its branches which is
not distinctively whitish grey. Differences to be seen are densely hairy
ovary of G. 'Poorinda Belinda', its much longer hairy style and its overall
flower colour which is a pale orange shade rather than brick red.
Grevillea 'Poorinda Peter'
This cultivar is a large spreading shrub growing to a height
of about 3 metres by 3-4 metres wide. The leaves are very deeply lobed,
occasionally with secondary lobes. The individual lobes are pungent, and
15mm by 4-5mm wide. The upper leaf surface is smooth and shiny whilst the
underside is covered with dense silvery hairs. The leaf edges are rolled
under. The new foliage has purple to bronze tonings. The flowers are of the
toothbrush type and are borne terminally in the upper leaf axils. The
perianth is about 10mm long and is covered with dense hairs. These hairs
mask its deep purple colour. The reddish purple style is about 20mm long.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar differs from G. acanthifolia in that each lobe is
usually entire compared with the usually sub-divided lobes of G.
acanthifolia. The leaves are different from G. longifolia in that they are
much more deeply lobed.
Note:
Upon further continuing close examination of specimens growing at the
Australian National Botanic Gardens it has been found that not all
specimens have dense silvery hairs on the underside of the leaves. It
appears that this characteristic can vary slightly between specimens in
different situations. For this reason this characteristic should not have
too great an emphasis placed upon it when determining this cultivar.
Grevillea juniperina 'Lunar Light'
This cultivar retains the prostrate habit of the parent plant
but is variegated, and the flowers are distinctly different in colour. The
leaf variegation varies from all yellow on the new growth to mature leaves
showing approximately 75% green and 25% variegation. The variegation is
around the margins of the leaves. The flowers tend towards orange suffused
with pink. Flowering starts in November.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is distinguished from the prostrate yellow
flowered form of G. juniperina by the variegated leaves and orange pink
flowers.
Grevillea 'Mason's Hybrid'
This cultivar grows into a bushy shrub plus/minus 1.5m tall by
up to 2m across. The foliage is very similar to another G. banksii x G.
bipinnatifa hybrid, G. 'Robyn Gordon'. The racemes of flowers are 12cm long
by 10cm in diameter. For the individual flowers the perianth parts are
plus/minus 18mm long and the style plus/minus 25mm. Flowers can be found at
all times of they year. The flowers are apricot coloured ant the styles are
red.
Diagnosis:
The foliage of G. 'Mason's Hybrid' can be difficult to
distinguish from the foliage of G. 'Robyn Gordon'. The flowers may be
easily distinguished. G. 'Mason's Hybrid' has apricot coloured flowers
whereas G. 'Robyn Gordon' has red flowers. The flower racemes are more open
and spreading than in G. bipinnatifida and are not held erect as in G.
banksii. The distinguishing features from another hybrid with the same
parentage, G. 'Superb', are that G. 'Mason's Hybrid' grows taller, and
flower colour is different. The flower is also a little smaller than G.
'Superb'. The style tips are quite different colours.
Comparators:
Grevillea 'Robyn Gordon' ACRA ACC001. Grevillea
'Kentlyn' ACRA ACC207. Note: G. 'Mason's Hybrid' has been sold under the
synonymous names Grevillea 'Ned Kelly' and Grevillea 'Kentlyn', but should
in future be referred to as G. 'Mason's Hybrid'.
Grevillea 'Parfait Creme'
This cultivar is an open to medium dense bush up to 3.5m tall
by 3m wide. The leaves are very similar to those of G. whiteana. The main
flowering season is spring and autumn though some flowers are found over
most of the year.
Diagnosis:
Grevillea 'Parfait Creme' differs from Grevillea 'Pink Parfait'
in the colour of the flowers. It is very similar to G. whiteana but differs
in the following ways:
G. whiteana
G. 'Parfait Creme'
flowers white/cream
flowers cream-yellow/caramel
pollen presenter yellow
pollen presenter greenish
branch wood pale to fawn
branch wood reddish brown
foliage greyish
foliage greenish
hairs on perianth creamy
hairs on perianth rusty
Flowering is more prolific than either of its parents.
Grevillea 'Poorinda Refrain'
Bushy shrub growing to a height of about 1.3m. Theleaves are covered on both sides with dense silvery hairs, and about 22mmlong by about 5mm wide. The leaf edges are rolled under. The flowers are formed into clusters at the ends of short branchlets. The perianth is very woolly and yellow-buff in colour and about 8mm long and the styles are about 10mm long.
Grevillea 'Sunset Splendour'
Shrub 3-4m tall, spreading to 2-3 m. Flowering is almost
throughout the year. The flowers are deep burnt orange in colour. The
foliage open and is grey-green in colour. Leaves are pinnately divided into
c.10-18 linear lanceolate sub-opposite lobes c.2-4 mm wide, 60-110mm long;
overall leaf length c.23-30 cm; upper surface dull green with a more or
less sparse covering of appressed white hairs; lower surface with an
indumentum of dense white appressed hairs. Flowers occur in terminal,
crowded cylindrical inflorescences c.9-16 cm long; perianth c.11-12mm long,
3-4 mm wide, outer surface with an open indumentum of wavy white hairs,
inner surface smooth and glabrous; limb bright yellow with similar
indumentum to perianth. Pistil 33-36 mm long; ovary sessile, covered in
dense white semi-appressed hairs; nectary prominent, bright yellow, with a
margin of deeply incised triangular lobes; style glabrous, shortly curved
above the small pollen presenter
Diagnosis:
The colour of the inflorescence is unique, being a distinct
burnt orange.
Grevillea 'Ladelle'
Shrub to 5m, spreading to 4m. Flowering is almost continuous
throughout the year. Flowers occur in terminal crowded cylindrical
inflorescences c. 11-15cm long x 5cm diameter; perianth 10mm long x 3-4mm
wide, outer surface has a moderately dense indumentum of appressed and
erect wavy white hairs, subduing the flower colour. The inner surface is
smooth and glabrous. The limb is covered in dense, erect wavy white hairs.
The pistil is 32-38mm long; ovary sessile, covered in dense flattened white
hairs; nectary prominent, burgundy in colour, with a prominently scalloped
margin; style glabrous with a prominent hoof-like pollen- presenter. The
foliage is open and is grey-green in colour. Leaves are pinnately divided
into c.7-9 sub-opposite lobes; lobes linear -lanceolate c. 4-9mm wide,
40-8-mm long; overall leaf length c.11-17cm. Young leaves are grey-green on
upper surface with an indumentum of semi-appressed white hairs most of
which are shed on maturity. Mature leaves are dark green on the upper
surface. The lower surface has a dense appressed indumentum of silvery
white hairs.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is distinguished from its parent Grevillea 'Misty
Pink' by the deeper colour of the flowers. Its closest comparator is
Grevillea 'Sylvia' which is also a much paler pink.
Grevillea 'Flame 'n Beauty'
A dense spreading, shrub 0.6-1 m high 1.5-2 m wide. Branchlets
ascending, round in cross-section, slender, densely white-velvety. Leaves
2-4.5 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, obovate in outline, secund, 3–5-sect,
usually with trisect secondary division; primary leaf lobes 3-5, ultimate
lobes 0.5-2 cm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, stiff, pungent, upper surface
grey-green, texture leathery. Flowers:
buds whitish-green, perianth pale
yellow outside ageing white, the inner tepals reddish above the curve; the
limb creamy-white; style and style-end red; pollen-presenter whitish-pink.
The overall appearance of the flower is a peach colour aging to pink.
Flowering occurs from May through to December.
Diagnosis:
G. asparagoides differs in its open, cylindrical inflorescences
and perianths up to 5 mm wide and with a dense indumentum of glandular
hairs. G. calliantha has leaves to 7.5 cm long with 5-7 lobes, longer
floral bracts (>2 mm long) and perianths lacking glandular hairs. Flower
colour is a blend of both parents.
Similar hybrids:
Grevillea ‘Little Jessie’ which differs in its leaves
lacking secondary division.