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Melaleuca 'Ballarkona'
- File Number
- 348
- ACRA Field Book Number
- 128
- Registration Date
- 05/11/2013
- Application Received
- 30/09/1983
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Cultivar Name
- Melaleuca 'Ballarkona'
- Origin
- The original plant was found growing in the rock garden at the Oakey Army Aviation Centre. Gavan and his wife originally came from the towns of Ballarat and Arkona in Victoria.
- Characteristics
- Large open shrub to 5m in diameter with linear, crowded, dark green leaves and flowerheads on lateral growths usually 80-100mm long x 30mm in diameter, cream. Diagnosis: Melaleuca 'Ballarkona' may be a hybrid with one parent likely to be M. armillaris. At around 5 metres in diameter M. 'Ballarkona' has the appearance of a smaller form of M. armillaris which generally grows to between 4-10 metres high by 2-8 metres in diameter. The smaller growth habit is combined with much larger flowers which are produced prolifically in spring mostly between 80-100 mm x 30 mm in diameter as opposed to the standard M. armillaris flowers which are approximately 30-60mm x 20-25mm in diameter.
- Cultivation
- Has proven extremely hardy in Canberra at the Australian National Botanic Gardens with some plants now over 30 years old.
- Publication
- RHS Cultivar Registration Bulletin 2 (2022), p39;
- Colour Coding
- RHS Colour Chart 1995: Flowers: White Group 155a
- Propagation
- Cuttings
- Applicant Name
- Mr. L.E.G. (Gavan) Schaefer of 'Ballarkona', Gowrie Mountain,near Toowoomba.
- Uses
- As part of a mass planting or mixed in a shrubbery.
- Availability
- Friends of the ANBG plant sales
- ANBG Accession Numbers
- -
- NSL ID
- -