Must see Jacaranda mimosifolia - Jacaranda Lower Garden November

Sydney is enjoying the annual purple haze created by flowering Jacarandas. Enjoy them and much more this month. Scan the QR code below to use our Garden Explorer finder to follow the tour.

#RBGSydney #MustSeeRBG 1.  varieties - Pincushion 5.  pinnatum - Dorrigo 7. Syzygium wilsonii subsp. wilsonii -

Plants Like its close relative the Waratah Powderpuff Lilly Pilly Leucospermum is derived from (), the Dorrigo This is perhaps the most spectacular Greek and means ‘white seed’. It is a Waratah is a rainforest tree with of all the Lilly Pillies. It has attractive clue to the mutualistic relationship spectacular flowers. They are pink-red pendulous branches, striking pink these have with ants in South and clustered together at the end new , beautiful red flowers and Africa. The seed is coated with a white of the branches. These nectar rich edible white berries. This is substance (elaiosome), rich in protein flowers attract birds and are visited endemic to the lowland rainforests of and lipids and very attractive to ants by the Richmond Birdwing butterfly. far north Queensland from Ingham who take the seeds underground to This tree has a restricted distribution, to Cooktown. It is a relatively slow feed on the elaiosome. Regular fires occurring on the Dorrigo Plateau growing reaching 1 to 3 metres in the plants' habitat, can completely in NSW and the Macpherson Range that straddles the NSW in height and can be grown as an destroy the plants but the seed is protected underground thanks to Queensland border. Plants are difficult to grow in cultivation and understorey plant in the garden or even in a large container. the ants and able to germinate after the fire. best grafted onto Tree Waratah rootstock. 8. Angophora hispida - Dwarf Apple, Banda 2. Crinum moorei – Natal Lily 6. Hibiscus brackenridgei subsp. mokuleianus This close relative of the Sydney Red Everything about this bulbous plant This fast-growing Hibiscus from Gum (Angophora costata) is a mallee, from South Africa is big. The bulbs grow Hawaii is covered in beautiful buttery with multiple trunks growing to 7 to around 20 cm diameter, large strappy yellow flowers. It comes from the metres. At this time of the year bristly leaves grow a metre above the ground island of O’ahu where it grows in dry red buds burst open to reveal large and pink and sometimes white tubular forests and shrublands in only three staminate, white flowers that attract flowers rise well above the foliage. locations and is listed as critically a myriad of insects. Also emerging, Flowers have a sweet fragrance and the endangered. Only 100-300 individual clasped to the stem are pink-red new plant grows best in light shade. Although plants survive in the wild but work leaves with heart shaped bases. The popular in gardens and naturalised in is being conducted to augment Dwarf Apple grows on Hawkesbury other countries, it is not widespread these populations with translocated sandstone between the Royal National in its native habitat and is threatened cultivated plants to safe locations on Park in Sydney’s south and Gosford to by overcollection and predation by O’ahu. Scientists ensure that thesre is the north. caterpillars. genetic diversity in these translocated populations. 3. Graptophyllum ilicifolium - Mt Blackwood Holly

With leaves like Holly and a flower reminiscent of a Fuchsia, this rare 4 . PLANT OF THE MONTH plant from Central Queensland is becoming popular in gardens Erythrina x bidwillii 'Blakei' but is listed as vulnerable in the wild. It grows naturally in drier (Blake's Erythrina) rainforests, along rocky drainage This is a plant with spectacular vermillion red flowers and lines in semi-shade. In cultivation an interesting Australian history. It was bred by William it prefers dappled light, regular Macarthur at his Camden Park estate in the 1840s by crossing moisture and light pruning to keep E.herbacea with E.crista-galli. The name honours both former a compact shape. Provided with Garden's Director , John Bidwill and Macarthur’s convict these conditions, plants reward with gardener, Edmund Blake. This was the first hybrid produced glossy green foliage and a spectacular anywhere in the world between woody legumes. It is sterile annual display of pink flowers in late and needs to be grown from cuttings or grafted onto E.crista- spring. galli rootstock .