Australian Cultivar Registration Authority

This cultivar is a vigorous plant with flowering scapes to 1.6m tall. The flowering stems are multi-branched, thin and tend to spread as broad as they are high. Up to 7600 individual flowers have been recorded for a mature plant of the cultivar, and they are a rich burgundy in colour. This colour is produced by the dense covering of plumose hairs on the flowers and much of the flowering stem, fading in colour and intensity as they reach lower down the stem. The flowers have a bright yellow green patch of colour near the pedicel. Individual flowers are up to 30cm long by ca. 8mm wide at the widest point of the corolla. The corolla tube is terminated by six perianth lobes which taper to a point. These lobes are reflexed when the flower is fully opened. Inside the perianth segments are yellow green as are the stamens. The stamens are more or less as long as the perianth tube. Leaf like bracts occur frequently on the flowering stem and regularly reach 30cm long. The foliage is also vigorous with leaves from 36 to 60cm long by 10 to 40mm wide. Diagnosis: Anigozanthos 'Red Cross' shows the vigour and longevity of A. flavidus. The flowers have the rich colouring of A. rufus. The cultivar is larger than the maternal parent but does not reach the proportions of a well-grown plant of A. flavidus. The anthers are yellow green as are those of all the A. flavidus hybrids, the orange anthers of A. flavidus being recessive.There are two other cultivars that arise from this cross, Anigozanthos 'Harmony' and Anigozanthos 'Unity'. The quickest and easiest distinguishing feature is that Anigozanthos 'Red Cross' has a very distinct yellow patch at the base of the flower. Anigozanthos 'Velvet Harmony' is a much deeper colour while Anigozanthos 'Unity' has larger flowers, to 40mm long as compared to 30mm for A. 'Red Cross'.

This cultivar is a compact plant with much branched flower stems to .8m tall. The flowering stems are covered with plumose hairs. These hairs are sparsely scattered at the base of the stem and around the leaf-like bracts on the stem. The hairs are reddish in colour. The perianth segments of the flower are green-yellow but appear apricot when seen through the reddish hairs. These two colours contrast well. The leaves are up to 25cm long by 1cm wide. Diagnosis: Anigozanthos 'Dwarf delight', which grows to 0.8m tall, is midway in height between the ca. 0.3m of A. onycis and ca. 2m of A. flavidus. The flowering stems of the cultivar are sparsely covered with plumose hairs for much of their length, becoming dense towards the individual flowers. The flowering stems of the cultivar are sparsely covered with plumose hairs for much of their length, becoming dense towards the individual flowers. A. onycis, is covered in dense, plumose hairs for the full length of the flower spike while A. flavidus has them only on the perianth segments of the flower and for a short distance below on the stem. The majority of the stem in this species is glabrous. The leaf-like bracts on the stem are the size of A. onycis. The flowers are intermediate in size between those of the two parents.

It is a perennial rosetted herb growing to a height of approximately 600mm. The leaves are green, long and narrow being about 300mm long and about 8mm wide. The flowers are produced in compact, branched terminal clusters. Individual flowers are red and about 35-40mm in length. Diagnosis: This cultivar is different from other known forms of Anigozanthos flavidus in its small, compact habit and dense flower clusters.

Note: Received as A. 'Mister X', possibly also known as 'Mini-X' Leaves glossy green to 20 cm long; inflorescence to 0.6 m tall and branched between 4 and 10 times, lower stem green and sparsely covered with red hairs, becoming denser closer to the flowers giving red brown colour; individual flowers to 4 cm long, overall colour effect a dull brown but a brighter red at the base of unopened perianth tube; flowering season September - November in W.A. DIAGNOSIS: Anigozanthos 'Patricia' to 0.6 m tall; flowers appear dull red/brown individual flowers ca. 4cm long;inflorescence branches 4 - 10 times Anigozanthos 'Unity' to 1.5 m tall; dark red flowers; tube ca. 4 cm long; inflorescence branches 20 - 30 times. Anigozanthos 'Red Cross'to 1.6 m tall; flowers burgundy with yellow patch at base of perianth; individual flowers ca. 3 cm long Anigozanthos 'Pink Joey', another wild selection, differs from other known forms of this species in its small stature and pale purplish pink flowers. It attains a height of only 50 cm and has somewhat narrow leaves 16 - 33 cm long and 0.4 - 0.6 cm broad; the much branched panicle is 20 cm long and many flowered.

The leaves are entire and up to 130mm long by up to 12mm wide. The flowers are produced in long dense "bottlebrush" clusters. These clusters are produced in bunches of up to 11 "brushes". Individual "bottlebrushes" are red and up to 150mm long by about 55mm wide. The stamens are the colourful parts of the flower. Diagnosis: This cultivar is different from other Callistemon cultivars in its long dense and clustered red inflorescences.

The flowering stems are up to 1m tall with sparse stellate hairs towards the base, becoming woolly and plumose towards the flowers. The flowers are in simple terminal racemes, on pedicels to ca. 5mm long. The hairs are plumose and woolly, having red tips with yellow bases over the ovary changing to yellow tips with red bases toward the perianth lobes. The anthers are linear and more or less the same length as the filaments, the connective tipped with a gland like appendage. The ovules are numerous. The flowering season is the spring months. Diagnosis: The flowers of Anigozanthos 'Autumn Mystery' are longer than for A. flavidus but shorter than A. manglesii. They attain a similar shape and width to A. manglesii with a less prominent ovary than A. flavidus. The base of the perianth tube is red on the ovary but doesn't immediately become green above like A. manglesii. Instead, the hairs are mixed red with a greater portion of yellow green hairs the colour of those on A. flavidus . Anigozanthos 'Space Age' is a cultivar resulting from the same hybrid cross and has somewhat taller stature and indistinctly larger flowers than Anigoizanthos 'Autumn Mystery' (perianth tube ca. 60mm versus ca. 52mm). The flowers of Anigozanthos 'Space Age' are wholly deep red, but those of Anigozanthos 'Autumn Mystery' appear yellow to brown with touches of red.

This cultivar has flowering stems to about 1.1m tall, mostly glabrous with a covering of dark purple tomentose hairs. The flowers are on terminal branchlets which are divaricately branched. The flowers have pedicels to about 4mm long. The wool on the flowers is dark red, plumose over the whole surface with occasional yellow green hair giving them a slightly dusty appearance. The perianth tube is around 45mm long, glabrous inside and minutely scabrous dotted below the middle. The perianth loves are about 10mm long with dense woolly yellow green and sometimes orange plumose hairs inside. The anthers ar shorter than the filaments, the connective tipped with a reduced gland like appendage. The ovules are about 6 per locule. Diagnosis: The flowers of Anigozanthos 'Early Spring' have the colouring of A. rufus. They are similar in length to A. flavidus but broader than A. flavidus or A. viridis and not as broad as A. rufus. The bracts are narrower and less hairy than A. rufus but broader than those in A. flavidus . The stems are more hairy than A. rufus. The leaves are much broader and not as long as A. viridis. The ovary is less prominent than in A. flavidus . Anigozanthos 'Early Spring' does not grow as tall as A. rufus.

This cultivar forms a shrub ca. 3m tall by 3m wide. The leaves are ca. 30mm long. The average to large petalled flowers open a deep pink purple colour and as they age turn a deeper purple. When open the staminal collar is a very distinct white. The flowers average ca. 20mm in diameter. Diagnosis: The cultivar is a selected form of the species. The flower colour is deep pink purple turning deeper purple with age is its distinguishing feature. Should provide a statement contrasting the flower colour of the species with the cultivar.

A moderately dense bushy shrub to 4m high and 3m wide, becoming more open with age, unless pruned. Leaves medium to dark green hooked at the end to 32mm long by 1.5 to 2mm across. Terminal flowers in clusters are two-tone, dark and light purple, 17mm to 20mm across. Flowering period in WA June to October. Diagnosis: Habit and form similar to locally occurring forms that is southern forms of Chamelaucium uncinatum, however the branches are more upright in growth. The distinctive feature of this old cultivar is its two-tone flower colour, it has been in the nursery trade and well recognised for many years. At present there are no known similar named cultivars, though many similar seedling, which originate from this plant, are now being cultivated. Probably the closest cultivar is 'Munn's', which also has two-toned flowers, ie deep purple on the edge of the petal and light purple centre. However this cultivar is also later flowering and the leaves are much thinner.

The habit of this cultivar is similar to normal Chamelaucium uncinatum. The flowers are an attractive pale mauve. Diagnosis: This shrub is very robust. A large percentage of the flowers are borne on the branch terminals. The original shrub was bred with the cut flower market in mind and the flower bearing capability of the shrub was proven by the amount of flowers cropped from it. In the first year 3.4kg, second year 13.6kg and the third year 18.2kg were cropped from one plant. This crop rate was recorded at Bundara Nursery. It is distinguished from other similarly coloured forms by its heavier crop of flowers.