Description: Leptospermum 'Rhiannon'
Photographer: Peter Ollerenshaw
Photographer: Peter Ollerenshaw
Leptospermum 'Rhiannon'
- File Number
- 1630
- ACRA Field Book Number
- 562
- Registration Date
- -
- Application Received
- 12/02/2020
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Cultivar Name
- Leptospermum 'Rhiannon'
- Origin
- A result of a controlled pollination or manipulated cross. - Female: Leptospermum rotundifolium. - Male: Leptospermum spectabile.
- Characteristics
- Upright growing shrub with dark glossy foliage and large mauve/pink flowers. It grows to approximately 2m tall and 1m across. Flowering occurs in late spring and lasts for about four weeks.
- Cultivation
- Highly ornamental shrub. Suitable for most soil types. Best in a sunny site but will tolerate some shade. Frost resistant to -6C. Responds well to pruning.
- Publication
- Plant Varieties Journal 7(3): 7
- Colour Coding
- RHS Colour Code: Flowers red purple (RHS red-purple group 70B
- Propagation
- Cuttings from semi-firm new growth
- Applicant Name
- Peter Ollerenshaw, 159 Millynn Road BYWONG, 2621
- Uses
- As part of the shrubbery, screen planting or as a showy feature plant
- Availability
- Specialist native plant nurseries
- ANBG Accession Numbers
- -
- NSL ID
- -