"Fangorn" Old Inverell Rd, Study Group Armidale NSW 2350 Ph. (02) 6775 1139 ISSN 1039-6926 FAX (02) 6772 2290 e-mail:[email protected] Dear Members, Newsletter No. 21 Thank you for your letters which always June, 2000 make interesting reading. I am now able to scan them Don has t&en up bushwalking in emest specimens directly without photographing and is having exploring the gorge country first and this has been a tremendous help in fun near Armidale. his picks the sending descriptions to ACRA for registration. On travels hc up In this newsletter I am including full descriptions add Coma for me which is handy. We have newer some wonderful wilderness areas in our region of some of the varieties which have been but few people venture below the tops of the sent to Canberra. gorges. If you have a promising seedling in your The garden is starting to look like a garden and think that it merits registration, give it Correa lover's paradise. The plantings over the a catchy name and send me some flowers and past five years are reaching maturity and I now small branches so that I can write up a try description and scan the specimen. You will need have some interesting forms. I to be to furnish me with as much information as you disciplined about labelling at planting time can about origin, flowering time and cultivation as with a tag on a string. Everytime I walk through these are sections that I can't tell from looking at the garden I stop to examine some of the tags and the . that way I remember what 1 have growing and where. It aIso helps when you have visitors to the I can also scan photos for the newsletter, garden - there's no frantic rush to label things. so please send me your snaps. If you want them There have also been severaI surprises, returned just say so. The newsletter is more vnr. interesting with the odd photo. In this edition I The Corren ref 1e.a speciosa plants are thriving which is unexpected given our climate. have asked members to look around for public C. no plantings of Correas and write a report for the aemula is lush and healthy and shows sign of being the drop-dead species that some people newsletter. I promise to do one on the airport claimed when I first took over the group. I have a pIantings and I look forward to your C. contributions. specimen of lawrenciana var. glamlulosunz from Gibraltar Range which is flowering and Well, I'm just as busy as ever! Life has growing strongiy despite the hard winter. become very complicated f6r all of us and the I've now found a way to register our expectations and demands on each one of us are wih enormous. I find gardening very therapeutic but cuicivars easily a miniinurn of fuss and the the trick is to make the time to plant and mulch next challenge is marketing our plants so that the and spray and prune and just simply walk around growers and the Study Group get some financial and take in the new blooms and foliage reward. I've enquired about entering into a legal fragrances. contract with a Imge wholesaler but the legal costs of drawing up the contract would be prohibitive for us. -we have to do this cleverly. I made upThis of Breast year ICancer joined survivorsa Dragon from Boat Sydney team wouldexperience. appreciate your ideas and perhaps and the Central Coast. I paddled in the Maritime Festival in Newcastle in January and the National I will be overseas (Europe and Canada) On the Olympic site in Penrith in from 21st August to 28th October. We will have March. I had a great time and look forward to mail but it wwld be if you the next season beginning in October. I train on sending me plants during this time or a rowing machine and keep my fitness levels up dudng Ule next few weeks. I hope you are kms to most mornings. Cycling on a frosty morning can be a bit chilly your andletters, happy and I look fonvard to reading but I feel great once I get to school. Cheers, Maria Hitchcock Correa Study Group Newsletter No 21 June 2000 page 1 Prom the Members Jeff Irons (UK) writes:

Ida Jackson writes: We hope to make it to Australia in November this year. My plan is to do S.E. NSW We were walking at the western end of and if possible get up to Burrendong Arboretum K.I. on Saturday and saw bushes of Correa between the Blue Mountains and our own return backlzouseana var. orbiccilaris just coming into to Sydney. It's always a job to get away from flower. The leaves seemed much more orbicuIm Mt. Wilson. than in specimens sent earlier. The bushes were open in growth, about 1 metre high and the leaves It occurs to me that you might be were sparser. interested in our Australasian Plant Society stand at the Royal Ho~ticulturalSociety's Tatton Park I think we saw this form growing near Flinclers Show. Tatton is a National Trust property in S. Cfaase NP- It had quite a diff~t-~ntgrowth hubit Cheshire, about 40 miles from here. The Show ro specimens growing at Rur7zarkable Rocks. was the first ever held by the RHS out of This codd be n habitat difference. Planf~ London. growing in semi-slzaded wnodhnd conciitianr tend to Be tnller and sparser in grmvth than Attendance was expected to be about those growing in the open elrpecinlly along the 70,000 (Chelsea is 80,000). At the end of the const. Ed four-day show it was estimated that attendance had been 129,000. Although police traffic Christine Wadey writes: contsol improved day by day, there were long delays on the roads ateoundTatton. I took up to I am enclosing a pressed sample of an hour r,u get there (usually 40 mins from Correa 'Point Hicks'. This Correa reaches its Wirral) but coaches were taking up LO 3 hours. peak flowering al3out September when the flowers are larger and brighter in colour than at We were in the unfortunate position of other times. I have dist~ibutedcuttings wideIy not knowing what material would be available for amongst the Y&maYarra Group and to other display or how much. So the stand could not be inrcresterl people. 1 have also enclosed some planned in advance and had to be put together the photos taken last year which give a good idea of day before the show. We had a display of cnt the flower and habit. flowers air frcighled in from AustraIia, Manchester Airport would not waive its £50 charge, but the wholesale florist let us have them at cost and did not charge the 17.5% VAT (GST) The remainder of the display was provided by members and most was sold off on the last day, so that overall we only made a loss of £250. The general public was interested in red bottlebrushes and Meterosideros, white Bucriphia millig

Jan sent this stunning card

Joan Pitaro writes:

After a very dry year we have had good Autumn rains and at this stage things me looking good. My Con'eas have all sr~ruivedand are now beginning to flower. The honeyeaters are quite active needless to say.

I'm glad you've had rain, Joan. We're in. cr drauglzt again with peopte bttyirzg wclter and caft/eon the roach. Have Ixen m~tlchir~gquir~ heavily to preserve nf oisture in tlze ground, I also plant durin~the cooler tnontlzs when the xrotlnd seems to stay relutively nzoist after wrirering plants in. There ore lots qf strategies jbr coping wirh dry conditions. Most Correas have strong root systenzs which can seek out every mailnbk drop. That's y they 're so good for planting under Eucalypts or beside bigger ~hrub~.Ed

Trix Chambers writes:

My garden is really getting the better of me again and 1have lost quite a lot of plants in the dry spell, cspcciaIly things in pots. Tlie Jan Simpson writes: watering becomes rime-consuming and rather costly, so it's n case of survivaI of the hardy ones. I have started growing display pots of all X've been treasuring four survivors of nine the Correas I have so you will have on site pots cuttings I took from a rather wiIced piece of for tlze Study Group display nt the ASGAP Corre.a I found broken off a plant st Karcvnrrn Conference in Canberra nexl ycar. If you like Gardens. It was n very prostrate C,pcllchella this idea T'll send a I ist of what we have and with a tiny flower of a bright orange shade. perhaps others can send me cuttings of pretties to be grown for the display. Two planh have buds and one is just showing some colour. I've not dared pIant into Bless yohi, Jon! I'll probably Se flying so the garden yet - it is still so dry. X should be able 1 won % be n bk to brirzg down potted platats. If to take a co~lpleback to Karwarra as the original other members nre c~mirzgto flzc Conference by plant died before Marilyn had taken any cuttings. car, perl~clpszhey can add 1.0the displ(ty. I've Anyway I will be able to take a few more cuttings found thnt plants in 14cm pots Look better than soon and hope for more success. tubes. Now is rhe time to plan what you want to bring. Also, if anyone could send Jan a few Actually I had some success striking cutti~zgsas requested that would be marvelow. Correas finomthe Mc Clay and PonIand areas My phorographic displcry will feature Tasmanian taken last June. Some are still sitting in the Correas and new Cultivars. Ed Correa Study Group Newsletter No 21 June 2000 page 4 cuttings pots and some have been potted on. RHS Colour Chart With the help of a grandson, I've just made a new bed and will plant it up with Comeias and cross If you are feeling rich and would like my fingers. your own set, they are available from the RHS shop in London. Go on, Trix. I can see something marvelous being created. Any chance of lending Ring0011441483 211320andusea me your grarzdson? My children never did like credit card. Alternatively you can fax them on gardening. I think your Correa is one that has 0015 441 483 212 447. Sets cost £100 and been called C. pulchella 'minor'. It seems to be postage to Australia is an extra £10. This worked fairly widely grown by a number ofmembers. out at about $288. Wo~flrlSoIneone please correct me if I've made a mistake here.

Yaw story brings home the importunce of takin~cuttings beJore planting our or of planting multiples in the garden. I always plant two of everythisg precious and tak~cuttings. Recently I losf a C. glnbra 'Apricot' in a garden near the holm-during a -9frost. Fortunately my second plant in another garden is thriving. This is why it's also essential to learn how ru propagate. Correas are reasonccbly easy to strike witJzout a professional set-up so vyou don % know how fa go about it, find someone to show you. I also have information from a previous newsletter if anyone wants it. Ed Trix continues: I've a very nice little bush of 'Dancing Lipsticks' with its brilliant flowers which the Spinebills love to visit. There is also a new C. pulchella with brilliant orange flowers which is We'll be visiting relatives in Germany absoIutely laden although the plant is quite small at the moment - about 9 inches high and inclined to spread. Unfortunately, the label faded and I forgot to record it. I"ve decided that the marking pens which are fine-tipped and supposed to be permanent are not proving successful - all that is left is 2 series of clzts, so I'm bzck to pencil. Now I have to devise a way to beat whichever birds renlove labels. I guess tying them on might do.

There's scope for a debare here - pen vs pencil! What does everyone use ? I use lclbels with strings and tie them OR to larger branches at planting time. It seems to do the trick. I got sick of hunting for buried labels. I tlzink we must have label-loving worms. Ed

and checking out the wildlife in Canada

Correa Study Group Newsletter No 21 June 2000 page 5 I have a problem here that I'm hoping Diagnosis: someone may be able to solve, When Cherree Densley sent me a piece of the plant which she Branchlets on this specimen have an caIls C. 'Poorinda Fantasy' it was different to the affinity to C. dec~rrnbenswhich has brown plans which I have in my garden under the same branchlets covered with a fine tomentum of white name. I asked Rodger Elliott but he doesn't have stelIate hairs. Leaves have more affinity to C. the original plant and the description in the prilchella (green glabrous leaves with defined oil Encyclopedia is diffrent to mine. We really need glands). C. decumbens has glabrous leaves but to track down the real 'Poorinda Fantasy' before it leaf shape is oblong-elliptical. I wo~lIdsuggest can be registered. Here is a descriptiun and a that this cultivar is a hybrid between C. pcilclzella picture of my plant in bud. and maybe C,bauerlcnnii or C. Eawrencinna as it is quite unlike other C. decumbens x C. Correa 'Poorinda Fantasy' pulchella hybrid cultivnrs already registered such Maria's Plant as C. 'Dancing Lipsticks'. The long internodes Correa decurnbens ? x C. pulchelln suggest a C. /awrerzcimcr parentage. or C. bcruerlennii or C. lawrenciana Cultivation: Origin: Unknown This cultivar is not vigorous in cultivation. It is frost and drought hardy and has an open Description: growth habit with dark shiny leaves. The unusual dull pink and gwen flowers are displayed well Upright small shrub to c.0.5 m x 0.5 m due to the open foliage. It is easy to grow from with an open habit. Branchlets sparsely cuttings and is bird attractive. This fa~mwould tomentose with tan-coloured stellate hairs be suited to most garden conditions inelitding becoming brown and glabrous with age. Long shade. Xt responds favourably to light pruning. internodes up to 48 mm add to the ooennws of It would suit tub plantings as well as foreground the foliage. simple elliptical leaves, 27 mm x 13 planting in garden bcds. mm, petioles to 6 mm. Leaf apices acute, leaf bases oblique, venation reticu [ate, margins entire. Upper surfaces of mature leaves dark green and glabrous with defined pits (oil glands). Cower surfaces of mature leaves pde green and glabrous with occasional scattered white stellate hairs. Upper surf+acesof young leaves mid green, glabrous with scaltered 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, apicirlate, densely tomentose, pedicels tomentose up to 5 mm with Liny tomentose bracts at base of . Corolla cylindrical 20 mm x 7 mm, dull rose pink with a fine tomentum of rose coloured stellate hairs ecrading to almost transparent on the dull greeeil tips. Tips of corolla not reflexed. markedly exerted 4 x 10 mm and 4 x 5 mm-StyIe longer than stamens 17 mrn from margin of cornlla. Anthers oblong spathulate, yellow-green, margins recurved.

Flowering Time:

Peak flowering is from October to Correa 'Poorinda Fantasy'?? November with spasmodic flowers at other times. Correa Study Group Newsletter No 21 June 2000 page 6 Here's another one of those unknown origins. Perhaps someone out there might have Flowering Time: more information. Rodger's voIume has the correct parentage as C. aemula x C. pulchella Peak flowering is from May to Wittunga no longer has it growing and also had September in most districts. no records of origin. I have named it 'Pink Frost' Diagnosis: Correa 'Pink Frost' Correa pulchella x C. nemula Similar to C. aemula in leaf shape and surface characteristics, slender pedicels, calyx Origin: with acuminate lobes and splitting corolla. Similar to C. pulchella in flower colour, Unknown. A plant from Wittunga uniformity of colour on corolla and strongly Botanic Gardens which looks very similar to one reflexed tips. This hybrid is unusual and is which is pictured in Eliott and Jones not similar to any registered cultivars. The 'Encyclopaedia of Australian Plants' Vol3, p. 94 combination of C, aemula and C. pulchella is but I believe the parentage given (C.pulchella x fairly rare in cultivation. The name has been C. refZexn) is incorrect. The leaves in the photo selected because of the cool pink in the corolla resemble C. aenz~llarather than C, reflexa. giving an impression of frosting. Cultivation: Description: Ths cultivar is fast-growing in cultivation Low shrub to c. 0.4 m x 0.4 m with a and is very hardy, withstanding frost and moderately dense habit. Branchlets lusty drought. The s111all shrub has a delicate lush tomentose with some rose-coloured stellate hairs appearance and is quite ornamental. It attracts near tips becoming brown and glabrous with age birds and responds well to tip-pruning. It is with occasional tan-coloured stellate hairs. suitable for tub-planting as well as foreground planting in garden beds. it has great horticultural Upper surfaces of young leaves mid- potential. green, glabrous with scattered rust-coloured and transparent stellate hairs becoming more RHS: Corolla 6 1D Mature leaves 137A concentrated at the margins. Lower surfaces of young leaves green, glabrous with denser tomentum of rust coloured stellate hairs. and stems green, glabrous with occasional rust- coloured stellate hairs.

Upper surfaces of mature leaves dark- green, scabrous with sparsely scattered white stellate hairs. Lower surfaces of mature leaves pale greer? with sparsely scattered white to tan- coloured stellate hairs. Simple cordate leaves, 24 mm x 15 mm, petioles 4 mrn. Leaf apices acute, leaf bases oblique to cordate, venation reticulate, margins entire and undulate.

Calyx hemispherical, glabrous with sparsely scattered tan stellate hairs and narrowly triangular acuminate lobes 2 mm long, slender Corren ne~iz~ilnx pulclzelln 'Pink Frost' on left pedicels to 10 cm. Corolla cylindrical 23 mm x 5 Corren aetizula on right mm, rose pink, glabrous with occasional scattered transparent stellate hairs. Corolla splits almost to calyx with age, giving impression of a flared bell. Stamens strongly exerted with oblong yellow anthers and white filaments. Corolla tips strongly reflexed.

Correa Study Group Newsletter No 21 June 2000 page 7 This new cultivar will be marketed by pedicels to 5 mrn. Corolla cylindrical 28 mrn x 13 Sarah Caldwell who owns MoIe River Station mnrn, rose pink covered with transparent stellate Nursery in the Torrington area. The flower is hairs becoming pale green towards tips with stunning. Unfortunately I don't have a scan. We scattered rust coloured stellace hairs. Stamens took n slide but it hasn't been developed yet. not strongly exerted with oblong yellow anthers and pale green filamenls. Style green. Corolla Correa 'Federation Belle' tips barely reflexed. Correa 'Marion's Marvel' x C. I-ejZexavar. speciosa Flowering Time: Origin: Flowering begins in late February and Chance seedling in the garden of Sara11 continues through autumn and early winter. Caldwell, Mole River Station, in the Torrington area in northern NSW. The CaldwelIs operate a Diagnosis: Nursery and have n selection of Correas passing through the nursery. lr is believed that this This plant is similar to Correa 'Marion's seedling is a hybrid between Coma 'Marion's Marvel'. The name 'Federation Belle' was Mtwvelkad perhaps a form of Corren reflexa selected after a discussion between Sarah var. speciosci. The seedling appeared beside a 2 CaldweIl and myself. The Centenary Committee m Iii~hComa 'Marian's Marvel', which is ii-r Tenterfield are keen to promote it during growlng adjacent to the Nursery. Centenary of Federation celebrations next yau-. T11ey originally wanted it called "Tcnterlield Be1 I' The other parent pIant was probably in a but I suggested that 'Federation Belle' would have pot nearby. The phnt also has occasional wider appeal and as the plant was not indigenous wui~~tionsin mo~phology, such as a two petalled to the Tenterfield slrn, that name would be corolla. Variations sucll as this tend to occur misleading. with C. rejlexa var speciosa lending further crectencc to the possibility of this varicty being a 11 was felt that a promotional label could parent plant. Feature the roIe of Tenteif~eldin the story sf Federation and this would satisfy the Committee. Description: Registration is being sought before wider LI-ialling rakes place because of the imminence of Mature slze of shrub is difficult to celebrations and the concern that the name may estimate at this stage. Plmt is 2 years old and 30 be applied to mother variety in the near future. crn x 45 cm with a rounded shape and medium dcnsity. Branchlets pale green, densely Cultivation: comentose with pale tan-coloul-ed stef fate hairs becoming brown and glabl.0~1~with age with This cultiviu is fast-growing in cultivation occasiunal tan-coloured stellate hairs. and is very hardy, withstanding kost and drought. The seedling germinated in coarse Upper surfaces of young leaves mid- gravel and is growing well in this medium. It is ,men, glabrous with scattered pale-coloured easy to strike from cuttings. Like other Correas. steIlate hairs the margins. Lower surfaces of it attracts birds and responds welj to tip-pruning. young leaves pale green, densely tornentose with It is suitable for tub-planling as we11 as transparent stellale Irail-s on the lamina becoming foreground planting in garilen beds. lust-colourcd on the veins. Upper surfaces of mature leaves dark- green, glabrous and slightly scabl-ous. Lower surfaces or mature leaves pale green with occnsional rust-coloured stellate hairs towarcls leaf base. Simple cordate !eaves, 33 x 24 mm, petioles 3 mm. Leaf apices acute to obtuse, leaf bases cordate, venation reticulate, margins entire and slightly sinuzlte. Calyx hemispherical, cream coloured with scattered rust-coloured stellate hairs and minutely lobed , subtended by a pair of foliaceo~tsbracts, C. 'Dusky Bells', C. 'Mama Maria' and C. decurnbens Correa Study Group Newsletter No 21 June 2000 page 8 Correa 'Mama Maria' slightly shorter than the stamens. Correa 'Dusky Bells' x C. decumbens Flowering Time: Origin: Flowering begins in February and Chance seedling in the garden of Maria continues through autumn. Hitchcock on the western outskirts of Asmidale in northern NSW. Maria is Leader of the Diagnosis: ASGAP Correa Study Group and has a large living collection of Correas in her extensive This plant has an affinity to both parent garden. It is believed that this seedling is a plants. The flower colour is a brighter pink than hybrid between Correa 'Dusky Bells' and a folm either parent plant and C. 'Mama Maria' has pale of . The seedling appeared in green tips unlike C. 'Dusky Bells' which has the garden close to where the Correa decumbens uniform pink throughout the length of the corolla was growing a few years earlier. The other but like C. decunzbens which has green tips. The parent plant C. 'Dusky Bells' is growing in an flower is also an intergrade in shape. C. adjacent garden and is over 20 years old. The decumbens is narrow with tips that curve slightly seedling was transplanted from its original inwards and which have a scattering of rust- position to another garden bed on the western coloured stellate hairs. C. 'Dusky Bells' is wider side of the house in a slightly raised bed. It is and slightly bulbous with tips that are barely now approximately 5 years old. reflexed.

Description: The calyx of C. decu~izbensis obviously toothed but C. 'Dusky Bells' has no calyx teeth. The mature plant is 60 cm x 1.5 m with This hybrid has minute teeth on a calyx which a rounded shape and is very compact and dense. resembles C. 'Dusky Bells' more than C. Branchlets are pale green and densely tomentose decunzbens. Stamens are also similar to C. with grey-coloured stellate hairs becoming brown decc~nzberzswhich has strongly exerted stamens and glabrous with age with occasional grey- with yellow anthers which are longitudinally coloured stellate hairs. dehiscent. Flowers stand out horizontally from stems in this hybrid while C. decumbens has Upper surfaces of young leaves mid- flowers which stand upright and at a number of green, glabrous with scattered pale-coloured angles on stems and C. 'Dusky Bells' has flowers stellate hairs. Lower surfaces of young leaves which hang down from stems. pale green, densely tomentose with tan-coloured stellate hairs on the lamina becoming rust- Leaves are an intergrade between the two coloured on the veins and along margins. parent plants, having the narrow elliptical shape of C. decumbens although longer and wider. C. Upper surfaces of mature leaves dark- decunzbens leaves are 22 mrn x 7 mm. Lower green, glabrous and slightly scabrous. Lower surfaces of young leaves are less hairy than C. surfaces of mature leaves pale green with decumbens and more like C. 'Dusky Bells'. scattered tiny rust-coloured stellate hairs. Sinple narrow elliptical leaves, 32 mm x 10 mm, petioles The name 'Mama Maria' was selected as a 5 rnrn. Leaf apices obtuse, leaf bases oblique, way of associating the hybrid to the grower who venation reticulate but barely visible, margins was born in Austria and is of European entire. parentage. The word 'Mama' is European in origin and means 'mother' or 'leader of the Calyx hemispherical 4 mm x 3 rnm, green household'. The name therefore associates the coloured with scattered tiny mst-coloured stellate plant with Leader of the Study Group. It is a hairs and minutely toothed, pedicels to 3 mm. catchy name with alliteration and should be easily Corolla cylindrical 14 mm from calyx to tip, remembered and marketable. narsow near calyx and bulbous near tip (7 rnm), rose pink covered with rose-coloured stellate Cultivation: hairs becoming transparent towards pale green tips which have a light scattering of rust coloured This cultivar is fast-growing in cultivation stellate hairs on the corolla points which curve and is very hardy, withstanding frost, drought and slightly inwards. Stamens strongly exerted with hot sun. It is very dense and has great potential as oblong yellow anthers with longitutinal a groundcover and small plant suited to a wide dehiscence and pale green filaments. Style green, range of landscaping options including tub Correa Study Group Newsletter No 21 June 2000 page 9 planting and public amenity plantings. It is easy Flowering Time: to strike fmcuttings and maintains its compact shape without pruning. Like other Comas, it Flowering peak time is autumn/winter attracts birds such as Spinebills. In the garden with spasmodic flowers throughout year. situation, the flowers are half-hidden in the foliage but they would be more prominent when Diagnosis: grown for potted colous. The plant requires little or nn maintenance and wouId he suited ro a wide This plant has a much larger flower than range of climatic and soil conditions. other forms of C. reflexa var. speciosa and is paler in colour. It has similar foliage to other RHS Corolla: 54A 2D forms of this variety which occur in the Mature Leaves: 147A 147 CID Gippsland area. It has been named by Bob O'Neill and has been trialled by him in his garden Corren reflexa var speciosa "Big Bob' at Wandin. Bob regards this variety as a superior form of the species and should be marketed in Origin: the commercial nursery trade because of its flower which is larger than most other Comas. Select form of Correa refzcxa var. The form would be ideally suited to breeding spsciosa collected i11 South Gippsland in 1994 programs which would encourage density of by Rob O'Neill of Wandin, Victoria. foliage. Description: Cultivation:

The mature pIant is 50 cm in height with This cultivar is moderately fast-growing an upright open lzahit. B1~anc11let.sare brown, nod moderately hardy, withstanding light frosts. glabrous and densely tolnentose with grey- The plant requires a well-drained site, and regular cclloured stellate hairs becoming sparser on older watering and is best st~itedto a semi-shaded stems. Upper surfaces of young leslvcs mid- position. It may be grown in a tub. In order to green, glabrous wit11 scattered pale-coloured encourage more foliage and flowers, this plant stellate hairs. Lower sul-faces of young leaves should be irequently tip-pruned during the first pde green, tornenme with transpasen t and 111st- few years. coloured stellate hairs on the Iarnina becoming concentrated on the margins, RHS Corolla: 448 144B Mature Leaves: 137B Upper surfaces of mature leaves dark- green, glabrous, scabrous and strongly grooved with scattered tiny grey-coloured stellate hairs. Lower sul-faces of inature leaves pale green with a dense tomentum of rust-coloured stellate hairs becoming concentrated along veins. Simple narrow cordate leaves, 33 mrn x 11 mm, petioles 3 mm. Leaf apices obtuse, leaf bases cordate, venation strongly reticulate, margins entire and incurved.

Calyx squarish inshape, 5 m x 9 mm, green coloured with a dense tomen turn of n~st- colortred stelIate hairs, pedicels to 3 mm. Corolla cylindrical up to 45 mm from calyx to tip, narrow near calyx and bulbous (1 7 mm at widest point), rose pink cavered with rose-coloured stellfie hairs becoming tranqmsent towards pale green tips which have a light scattering of rust coloured steIlate hairs on the corolla pojn ts which curve Correa reflexu var. speciosa left slightly outwards. Stamens exerted with obIong Correa resexn vnr. speciosrr 'Big Bob' right tan-coloured anthers with longit~~tinaldehiscence and pde green filaments. Style green, of similar length to stamens.

Correa Study Group Newsletter No 21 June 2000 page 10 Correa rejlexa var rejlexa 'Snow White' Diagnosis:

Origin: This plant was selected because of its colour being a whitelcream variant of the normal Select form of var. rejlexa C. reflexa red forms which occur in the collected in the Kentbrook area west of Portland Kentbrook area. The leaves are much smaller and 25 kms east of Nelson, Vic. in 1993 by Bob than the flowers which allows for a good floral O'Neill of Wandin, Victoria. display. Bob O'Neill called it 'Kentbrook White' but I have given it an alternative name of 'Snow Description: White' to accentuate the white form and to accompany the red form which I have called The mature plant is 50 cm in height with a 'Rose Red'. Both names occur in the same semi-prostrate open habit. Branchlets are densely fairytale as sisters. Both plants were found tomentose with rust-coloured stellate hairs growing close to one another. becoming brown and glabrous with a sparser covering of tiny grey stellate hairs on older Cultivation: stems. This cultivar is moderately fast-growing Upper surfaces of young leaves mid- and hardy, withstanding most frosts. The plant green, scabrous with scattered minute grey- does best in a well-drained site. It may be grown coloured stellate hairs. Lower surfaces of young in a tub. In order to encourage more foliage and leaves pale green, highly tomentose with flowers, this plant should be frequently tip- transparent and rust-coloured stellate hairs on the pruned during the first few years. larniia becoming highly concentrated on the veins. There are a pair of brown shiny oil glands RHS Corolla: 1Cl154C 145B at the base of the leaf on either side of the . Mature Leaves: 137C

Upper surfaces of mature leaves dark- green, glabrous and scabrous. Lower surfaces of mature leaves pale green with a dense tomentum of transparent and rust-coloured stellate hairs becoming concentrated along veins. Scattered shiny green glands occur on lamina. Simple cordate leaves, 23 mm x 14 rnrn, petioles 1.5 mm. Leaf apices obtuse, leaf bases cordate, venation strongly reticulate, margins entire and slightly incurved.

Calyx hemispherical in shape, 4 mm x 6 rnm, green coloured with a dense tomentum of tiny tan-coloured stellate hairs, becoming flattened and brown-colomed after flowers have dehisced. Pedicels to 3 mm. Corolla cylindrical up to 35 mm from calyx to tip, narrower near calyx and 12 rnm at widest point, pale creamy- yellow corolla with hint of pink near calyx and pale green tips. The entire corolla is covered with a dense tomentum of tiny white stellate hairs. Corolla points curve slightly outwards. Stamens barelv exerted with oblong tan-coloured anthers with iongitutinal dehiscence and pale green filaments. Style green,as long as stamens but C. reflexa var reflexa 'Snow White' lengthening with age. Flowering Time:

Flowering peak time is autumnlwinter,

Correa Study Group Newsletter No 21 June 2000 page 11 Correa rejlexa var reflexa 'Rose Red' Diagnosis: Origin: This plant was selected because of its rich colour and size being larger in width than normal Select form of red-flowered Correa C. refkxa red form which occur in the reflexa var, reflcxa collected in the Ken [brook Kentbrook area. The leaves are smaller than the area west of Portland and 25 kms east of Nelson, flowers which allows far a good floral display. Vic. in 1993 by Bob O'Neill of Wandin, Bob O'Neill called it 'Kentbrook Red' but I have Victoria. given it an aleernative name of 'Rose Red' to accentuate the red form and to accompany the Description: white form from the same area which I have called 'Snow White'. Both names occur in the The mature plant is 60 - 70 cm in height same fairytale as sisters. with a semi-prostrate open habit. Branchlcts are densely tomentose with rust-coloured stellate Cultivation: hairs becoming brown and glabrous with a sparser covering of tiny grey steIlate hairs on This cultivar is moderately fast-growing older stems. Upper surfaces of young leaves and hardy, withstanding most frosts. The plant tomentose with minute grey-coloured s tel Inle does best in a well-drained site. It may be grown hairs. Lower surfaces of young leaves yellowish in a tub. in order to encourage more foliage and green, highly tornentose with transparent and flowers, this plant should be FrequentIy tip- nrst-coloured stellate hairs on thx lamina pruned during the first few years. bccoming concentrated on the veins. There are a pair of brown shiny oil glands at the base of the RHS Corolla: 45A 145B leaf on either side of the petiole. Mature Leaves: 137BJC Upper surfaces of mature leaves dark- green, glabrous and scabrous. Lower surfaces of mature leaves pale green with a dense tomenturn of transparent and rust-coloured stellate hairs becoming concentrated along veins, Occ(zsional shiny green glands occur on lamina. Simplc cordate leaves, 32 mm x 18 mm,petioles 3 mm, Leaf apices obtuse, leaf bases cordate, venation reticulate but barely visible, margins entire, sinuate and leaves incuwed. Calyx hemispherical in shape, 5 m x 8 aurr, yaIe green coloured with a dense tomenlum of tiny n~st-colouredsrellnte hairs, becoming flattened and brown-coloured after flowers have dehisced but subtended by a pair of srnalI tornentose bracts. Pedicels to 1 mm, CorcjLla cylindrical up to 38 mm from calyx to tip, narrowel. netr calyx and flaring out to 1X mm at widest paint, rich red corolla with pale green tips. The entire corolla is covered with a dense tomenturn of tiny rase-colou~zdand transparent stellate hairs becoming white on corolla tips. C. reflexa var,rejlexa 'Rose Red' CoroIlsl points do not curve outwal-ds. Stamens barely exerted with oblong tan-coloured anthers with longitutinal dehiscence and pale green filaments. Style green,as long as stamens but lengthening with age. Flowering Time: Flowering peak time is autumn.winter.

Correa Study Group Newsletter No 21 June 2000 page 12 1I Pauline Glocke

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