25 August 2020 Featuring the Plants of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT
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12. On your left is Grevillea irrasa subsp. didymochiton, a tall rangy bush with oblong A publication of the green foliage and red spider flowers from the Friends of the Australian Moruya and Pambula areas of southeastern National Botanic Gardens NSW (photo below left). 12 - 25 August 2020 Featuring the plants of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT. Written and illustrated by Friends Rosalind and Benjamin Walcott Today we will walk up the Main Path to see 13. Also on your left is Banksia neoanglica, or some grevilleas in flower New England Banksia, with silver backed dark green foliage with yellow/gold brushes held upright (photo above right). This shrub grows along the east coast of Queensland and New South Wales 14. On your right is Grevillea ‘Sid Reynolds’ which arose as a seedling in the garden of Sid Reynolds and is thought to be a hybrid between Grevillea pinaster and G. commutate (photo below left). This medium sized shrub has fine foliage and red and yellow spider flowers in spring. 1. After you leave the Visitor Centre, on your right, in a pot, is Anigozanthos manglesii or Red and Green Kangaroo Paw, which is the floral emblem of Western Australia (photo above). This plant is one of the most spectacular of the Kangaroo Paws, with its green flowers with bright red bases on red furry stems. This plant grows along the southern part of the west coast of Western Australia. 2. Acacia boormanii, or Snowy River Wattle, on 15. Also on your right is Banksia spinulosa var. your left, has fine needle foliage and masses of spinulosa, or Hairpin Banksia, with long orange golden ball flowers (photo next page top left). flowers, which is found in open forests and This plant is a medium-sized, suckering, multi- woodlands of the coasts and mountains of New stemmed, copse-forming shrub, with a native South Wales and Queensland (photo above right). range in the alpine country of southeastern Australia. 6. On your right is Acacia alata var. 9. Grevillea ‘Poorinda Adorning’, on your Biglandulosa, or Winged Wattle, with flat- right, is a low, prickly groundcover with bright tened phyllodes and masses of white fluffy ball red flowers with long styles (photo below). The flowers (photo below). This plant is native to series of Poorinda grevilleas were made from Western Australia near Geraldton. crosses by Leo Hodge at his property W Tree near Buchan, Victoria. 3. Cross the bridge and go past the café to see Pandorea sp. Mt. Maroon, on your right, in a pot, a small trailing plant with cream bells with maroon centres and markings (photo above right). This plant is found in southeastern Queensland. 10. On your right is Grevillea ‘Coconut Ice’ with large pink/orange spider flowers with long 7. Bear left up the Main Path to see on your red styles (photo below). This hybrid plant is left, in a pot, Darwinia oldfieldii, or Oldfield’s grown from seed collected from G. Darwinia, with narrow green foliage and bright bipinnatifida. The male parent was G. pink flowers with long styles (photo below). banksii (white flowered form). The seedling This plant is native to the area around was raised by Mr. M. Hodge of Queensland. Geraldton, Western Australia. 4. Also on your right is Rhodanthe anthemoides, a mound of grey-green foliage almost covered with white daisy flowers with gold centres (photo above). Also known as Chamomile Sunray, this plant is widespread on the mainland but listed as rare in Tasmania. 8. Continue on the Main Path to see on your 11. Turn right along the road to see on your left Grevillea monticola, with prickly ‘holly- right Grevillea flexuosa, or Zig-Zag Grevillea, like’ foliage with many rusty orange buds with green, prickly divided foliage and large which open to small white toothbrush flowers cream rods of flower which are sweetly scent- (photo below). This plant is endemic to south- ed (photo below). This endangered shrub is western Western Australia. found only in a small area east of Perth in Western Australia. 5. On your left is Epacris longiflora ‘Nectar Pink’, a very floriferous small shrub covered in slender pink bells with white tips (photo above). .