12. On your right is Banksia serrata, a small tree with very large greenish brushes, ovate serrated A publication of the leaves and a wrinkled trunk (photo below left). Friends of the Australian The trunk wrinkles more with age leading to its National Botanic Gardens common name of Old Man Banksia. Banksia serrata is a widespread species in eastern Australia. 13 - 26 January 2021 Featuring the plants of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT. Written and illustrated by ANBG Friends Rosalind and Benjamin Walcott Today we will walk past the rear of the café up 13. Again on your right is Triplarina nowraensis, the hill almost to the Red Centre Garden or Nowra Heath Myrtle, a small drooping bush with creamy-white tea-tree flowers which occur in pairs (photo above right). This plant is listed as endangered in the wild and only occurs in the Nowra area, New South Wales. 14. Still on your right is Podolobium aciculiferum , with gold 3-part flowers with sharp- ly pointed dark green foliage (photo below). This plant is native to coastal New South Wales and Queensland. 1. After you leave the Visitor Centre look to your right to see Corymbia ficifolia ‘Precious Pearl’ with masses of pink buds which will soon open to 15. Look to your left before the entrance to the pale pink fluffy flowers (photo above). This Red Centre Garden, to see Corymbia ficifolia, a compact cultivar of the southwestern West showy small tree, with dark red fluffy blooms and Australian flowering gum, Corymbia ficifolia, is a dark green leathery foliage (photo below). This grafted form. gum, from southwestern Western Australia, is one of the most spectacular when in full flower. 2. Turn left past the rear of the café and then bear right to see on your right three Melaleuca decora, a small tree with brownish papery bark, light green leaves and spikes of sweetly scented white flowers (photo next page top left). This tree is very popular with insects and is native to coastal areas of New South Wales and south- eastern Queensland. 6. Again on your right is Eremophila maculata 9. Turn right along the road labelled Family with bright pink tubular flowers on a small bush Lamiaceae to see on your left Westringia (photo below). This plant is widespread in the glabra, or Violet Westringia, a small bush with drier inland areas of all mainland states of grey-green leaves and mauve flowers (photos Australia. below). This plant is native to New South Wales and Victoria. 3. Further on your left is Babingtonia ‘Howie’s Feathertips’, a large bush of dense light green foliage with masses of tiny white flowers (photo above right). 7. Still on your right is Eremophila longifolia, 10. Further on your left is Stenocarpus a large bush or small tree with long, narrow angustifolius, a medium sized bush with grey-green leaves, light green fruits and dusty clusters of cream umbel flowers opening from pink tubular flowers (photo below). This plant green buds in attractive contrast to the is found across all the drier areas of mainland lance-shaped light green foliage (photo below). Australia. This plant is native to the Townsville area of coastal Queensland. 4. Again on your left is Babingtonia pluriflora ‘White Cascade’, a medium-sized bush with green weeping foliage and masses of small white, 5-petalled flowers with maroon centres (photo above). This cultivar arose as a chance seedling 11. Bear left up the hill to see, on your left, of Baeckea virgata at Wirreanda Nursery in Hakea victoria, or Royal Hakea, with Ingleside, New South Wales. 8. On your right is Eremophila psilocalyx stem-clasping, green, veined foliage with (pachyphylla), an upright broom-like shrub prickly edges (photo below). This plant is found with small glossy green leaves and mauve in a restricted area on the south coast of West- tubular flowers (photo below). This plant is ern Australia. native to southwestern Western Australia. 5. Turn left up the hill of see on your right Eremophila decipiens ssp. decipiens, a small shrub with red tubular flowers which is native to southwestern Western Australia (photo above). .