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Small compact herbaceous perennial shrub with yellow everlasting daisy flowers

Shrub with yellow everlasting daisy flowers.

Upright shrub with white everlasting daisy flowers with pink centres

Upright shrub with yellow everlasting daisy flowers around 7cm in diameter.

Upright shrub with yellow everlasting daisy flowers around 7cm in diameter.

Upright shrub with yellow everlasting daisy flowers

Plant: dwarf, bushy dense shrub, 1m x 1m with pendulous lime green foliage and mounding habit. Stem: many prostrate to arching stems supporting willowy branchlets. Foliage: narrow linear phyllodes, with indistinct venation and slightly acuminate apices, thin, average size 50 x 1.7mm. Diagnosis: distinctly smaller in habit and leaf form and lighter in colouration from other known dwarf cultivars of Acacia cognata.

In cultivation the cultivar is slightly more compact than the type and attains a height of 1.5m. All morphological characteristics of the cultivar are as for C. pachyphyllus. The flowers are a salmony pink to shell pink in colour and are plus/minus 8cm long by plus/minus 6cm wide. It is stated that in Brisbane this cultivar has some flowers for most of the year with two main flowering peaks, in summer and from autumn to early winter. The flowers during the summer months are slightly paler in colour. Diagnosis: The cultivar differs from the normal red and green flowering forms of C. pachyphyllus in the salmon pink to shell pink colour of its flowers.

This cultivar grows into small bushy trees from 3 to 5m tall by 3 to 4m wide. The inflorescences are in multiple heads on brach terminals and are bright red in colour. They are up to 13cm long by 6cm wide. The flowering season in Western Australia is from mid September to October with a smaller flowering in autumn. The leaves are up to 110mm long by up to 15mm wide. The shrub is much branched and the branchlets are slightly pendulous. Diagnosis: There is some similarity between Callistemon 'Harkness' (syn. 'Gawler hybrid') and Callistemon 'Kings Park Special'. Callistemon 'Kings Park Special' thrives in an open position and is fast growing. It responds well to pruning after flowering and the original plant has been severely pruned on two occasions and recovered well. This cultivar sets fertile seed but must be grown by vegetative means to preserve the cultivar form. Callistemon 'Kings Park Special' has proved to be more floriferous in western Australia than Callistemon 'Harkness'. It is adaptable to a wide range of soil types though can suffer frost damage to the younger shoot growth when grown in areas that experience severe frost. This latter factor could well be an indicator of C. viminalis being involved in the parentage of this cultivar.

This cultivar is a fast growing and pendulous shrub ca. 1.5m tall by 1.5m wide. Inflorescences are deep red in colour and ca. 9cm long, but narrow in diameter (ca. 3cm). Flowering is spasmodic all year (as observed under conditions in WA) with profuse flowering in October, January-February and March-April (also in WA). Diagnosis: Callistemon 'Packers Selection' closely resembles C. subulatus. It is possible to distinguish the cultivar by its very pendulous habit compared with the more erect habit of C. subulatus and by the much longer inflorescences. The flowers are a deep red fading as they age. Comparators: Callistemon subulatus CBG 7801196. NSW South Coast, 14Km north of Yowrie PO on north side of Tuross River.