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AssociationAustralian of NativeSocieties Plants for Growing Society (Australia)Australian IncPlants Ref No. ISSN 0725-8755 Newsletter No. 99 – September 2014 GSG Vic Programme 2014 GSG SE Qld Programme 2014 Leader: Neil Marriott Morning tea at 9.30am, meetings commence at 693 Panrock Reservoir Rd, Stawell, Vic. 3380 10.00am. We have a meeting every second month p 03 5356 2404 or 0458 177 989 usually on the last Sunday of the month. e [email protected] For more information contact Helen Howard on 0402 555 573. Contact Neil for queries about program for the year. Any members who would like to visit the Sunday, 26 October official collection, obtain cutting material or seed, assist in its maintenance, and stay in our cottage VENUE: Home of Steve and Laylee Purchase, for a few days are invited to contact Neil. 41 Rocklyn Road (Toowoomba south - take West Street south towards Mt Rascal). TIME: 10am, followed by trip to Peter Bevans Nursery, Lowood arriving there 12:30pm. Newsletter No. 99 No. Newsletter Lunch arrangements announced at the GSG NSW Programme 2014 meeting. For details contact Peter Olde 02 4659 6598. TOPIC: YABBA on the Downs. GSG meeting to be part of the October long weekend Friday, conference. Presentation on display of 3 October – Tuesday, 7 October Queensland Grevilleas. Flowers will be VENUE: Camp and accommodation at Oakdale. on display also of as many local species See our ‘Silky Oaks’ gardens as well, of Grevillea are available at the time. plants for sale, camp-out on farm. A tour of the ‘Illawarra Grevillea Park’, Sunday, 23 November Bulli and Peter & Sue Stewart’s cut- VENUE: Home of of Fran and Jim Standing, flower Grevillea farm at Alpine are Mt Clunie Woodenbong. also planned. TIME: 9:30am for 10am meeting TOPIC: The Sydney Grevilleas TOPIC: GSG Meeting Programme details on page 2 > Special thanks to the Queensland chapter for this edition of the newsletter. Victorian members, please note deadlines on back page for the following Illawarra Grevillea Park newsletter. OPEN DAYS 2014 September 6, 7, 13, 14 Inside this issue: Opening hrs are 10am – 4pm The Sydney Grevilleas field trip details Location On Grevillea dimorpha The Park is located at the rear of Bulli Showground, Princess Highway, Bulli. Grevillea saxicola S.J. Dillon, a new species from WA Grevillea Dorothy Gordon Admission $5 adults, children with adults are free Response to articles in last newsletter Petro and friends email [email protected] or visit www.grevilleapark.org Obituary - Norman Keith McCarthy Grevillea linsmithii Peter Olde This is the last newsletter for the year, a little early, John was a very knowledgeable plantsman who as I will be away for most of September in the U.S. was in charge of the National Botanic Gardens, Canberra for many years. He was also one of I want to encourage you to think about the field the early members of the Society for Growing trip that we have organised. There are still some Australian plants and the idea of developing the places available. It is being conducted in the National Botanical Gardens with natives placed Sydney region. A bus with driver will be provided. Editorial him firmly in the picture for the job of directing its We intend to visit and learn about all the local establishment. He made a significant collection of Sydney Grevilleas. I am sure a few things will be native plants in 1968 with others. An informative revealed that you did not know. There will have to interview recorded with him in 1995 can be be a small fee of around $10 per day for the bus accessed online at www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/ as the community bus idea did not work out. A few about/history/oral-history/wrigley-1995.html. of us have spent several days preparing the trip in advance, exploring the best stops for morning It deals in a very frank way about his relationships tea and lunch, and the best places to pull up and with the herbarium botanists Betty Phillips and visit the plants. It will be a memorable trip. We Arthur Court, and the staff he had under his will see a large range of plants of course, not just control and the difficulties associated with setting grevilleas. It is not too late to book. Please contact up the establishment. John was the first person to Gordon Meiklejohn while I am away. We have 25 ring me and congratulate me on the publication seats and only 18 bookings so far. Some have of the Grevillea Book. He was not blinded by his indicated they will come on individual days. love for native plants and always reckoned that they could combine well with exotics if selectively Gordon Meiklejohn contact details: 02 4657 1912; chosen. John retired to Coffs Harbour to establish 04 1710 4464; [email protected]. a rainforest on its hilly volcanic slopes in 1981 We need some people to graft some grevilleas but later moved onto a suburban block in town from Merv Hodge’s garden. In particular Grevillea where he grew a mixture of natives and interesting sp. aff. erythroclada Wenlock River and G. or rare exotics. He recently told me, somewhat dimidiata. This needs to be done now so that we prophetically that the latest edition of Australian do not lose them from cultivation, which would be Native Plants would be the last. Adenanthos a pity. Any volunteers? Maybe you could just get ileticos EC Nelson, Gk - to wriggle, was named the material and send it on to Richard Tomkin or after him. John was a member of the Grevillea other appointee. Study Group. I was very saddened to learn of the recent death of Remember this spring to take digital images of all John Wrigley, who died suddenly while holidaying your grevilleas. We always need them to illustrate at Brunswick Heads on 17 July 2014 aged 80. the newsletter, among other things. Peter Olde The Sydney Grevilleas October Long-weekend Friday October 3 –Tuesday October 7, 2014 Thursday afternoon 4 PM: Day 1 – Friday (Sydney) Guided Tour of ‘Silky Oaks’. Campers and others to set up. Broughton Pass Grevillea parviflora subsp. parviflora Russell Lane Grevillea ferruginea G. mucronulata Oakdale form Grevillea sphacelata Friday 7 am Kings Fall Appin Camden Community Bus. Grevillea longifolia Buy or take morning tea, lunch. Field trip details Grevillea mucronulata (large flower) Grevillea diffusa ssp diffusa continued > September 2014 Grevillea Study Group No. 99 2 Cordeaux Dam Rd Somersby Grevillea diffusa ssp. diffusa Grevillea speciosa form, thick leaved form Grevillea sphacelata Mangrove Mountain Grevillea oleoides Grevillea oldei Appin Road Grevillea buxifolia ssp. buxifolia ?Grevillea oleoides white Grevillea sp. aff. buxifolia 1 - Race b Grevillea sp. aff buxifolia - small flower Appin Road Grevillea capitellata Kulnura Rd Grevillea oleoides Grevillea oldei x speciosa (Kulnura) Old Princes HWay Garrawarra Day 4 – Monday (Blue Mountains) Field trip details Grevillea patulifolia Mulgoa McKell Ave Royal NP Grevillea mucronulata Grevillea diffusa ssp. constablei Grevillea phylicoides Grevillea parviflora Bulli Illawarra Grevillea Park (afternoon tea) Grevillea sericea subsp. nov Evening BBQ. Lower Blue Mtns Round table discussion at Oakdale. Grevillea sericea subsp. riparia Day 2 – Saturday (Sydney) Grevillea laurifolia subsp. laurifolia Grevillea mucronulata Blue Mtns form Southern Cross Bus Rental Grevillea phylicoides 8 am Smeaton Grange. Wentworth Falls 10–10.30 Grevillea oleoides (Battleship Tops) Morning tea at North Head overlooking South Head. Higher Blue Mtns Grevillea acanthifolia subsp. acanthifolia Lady Fairfax Lookout Grevillea laurifolia subsp. nov. Grevillea speciosa forms. Grevillea xgaudichaudii Grevillea buxifolia subsp. buxifolia. Lawson North Head Grevillea oleoides hybrid Grevillea speciosa suckering form Hyde Park Reserve Grevillea buxifolia again Grevillea rosmarinifolia Ba’hai Temple Frenchs Forest Little Hartley Grevillea caleyi Grevillea linearifolia pink Grevillea canescens Grevillea linearifolia weeping form Springwood – dinner. Grevillea sericea subsp. sericea Grevillea sericea hybrids. Day 5 – Tuesday (South-West) Paul’s Rd. Maroota Lava Tunnels Grevillea parvifolia subsp. supplicans Avon Dam Grevillea buxifolia subsp. nov. 1 Grevillea oleoides pink Blacktown, Londonderry Grevillea mucronulata Grevillea juniperina subsp. juniperina Welby Grevillea patulifolia Day 3 – Sunday (North Coast) Grevillea baueri North coast Grevillea raybrownii Grevillea diffusa subsp. filipendula red flowers Carrington Falls Grevillea diffusa subsp. filipendula black flowers Grevillea shiressii Grevillea rivularis Grevillea sericea subsp. sericea Grevillea patulifolia Grevillea linearifolia pink September 2014 Grevillea Study Group No. 99 3 Peter Olde On Grevillea dimorpha Grevillea dimorpha F.Mueller Another anomaly associated with G. dimorpha (1854b: 21) concerns its date of publication. According to the Grevillea oleoides var. dimorpha cover page of the Transactions of the Philosophical (F.Mueller) G. Bentham Society of Victoria, in which Grevillea dimorpha (1870: 469) and other species were first described, the date Grevillea speciosa subsp. dimorpha of publication was 1855. However, The Australian Taxonomy (F.Mueller) D.J. McGillivray Plant Name Index (CHAH) (1991: 1470) record the (1986: 14). publication date as ‘before 8 Nov 1854’, evidence Grevillea dimorpha var. dimorpha. for which is cited in O. Seberg (1986). In the bible Autonym (F. Mueller 1854: 21) of taxonomic literature (Stafleu & Mennega), it is inferred (t. 6396) that Mueller’s paper is a reprint According to an unpublished timeline compiled in of an earlier article published in the Transactions part by Dr Jim Willis and held at MEL, Ferdinand and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute for the Mueller collected specimens of Grevillea dimorpha Advancement of Science, 1854–55. While the and Grevillea confertifolia during an expedition to Institute did commence meetings in 1854, the the Grampians in November 1853. He is known to papers read before it and its proceedings were not have visited Mt. Sturgeon, Mt. Abrupt, Mt William, published until 1855. In addition Mueller’s paper the Serra Range, the Victoria Range and Mt Zero read to the Institute, while similar in name, was as well as intervening valleys and swamps.