Australian Cultivar Registration Authority

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Description: Boronia pinnata 'Spring White', Taken: 16 January 2019, [HERBARIUM SPECIMEN] ACRA NO: Acc 186 Copyright : Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR) holds copyright
Photographer: Palmer, R.

Boronia pinnata 'Spring White'

File Number

186

ACRA Field Book Number

229

Registration Date

20/03/1980

Application Received

24/09/1979

Family

Rutaceae

Cultivar Name

Boronia pinnata 'Spring White'

Origin

Boronia 'Spring White' is a white flowered form of B. pinnata selected from a naturally occurring plant. Cultivar received by the Authority 24 September 1979. Applicants are Ian and Elaine Slade, Peats Ridge, New South Wales.

Characteristics

This cultivar is very floriferous, bearing clear white flowers plus/minus 1.3cm in diameter. All other features of the cultivar are as for B. pinnata.

Cultivation

This cultivar strikes readily from cuttings and grows in cultivation under the same conditions acceptable to B. pinnata. It is able to withstand reasonably dry conditions once established. It is frost hardy. Young plants flower 2 or 3 times per year but as the plant matures it has one main flowering during spring.

Publication

Australian Cultivar Registration Authority (1980), Australian Plant Cultivars. Australian Plants 11(85): 34

Colour Coding

Colour Chart 1966.petals: white group 155D.filaments: white group 155A.anthers: yellow green group 154C.

Propagation

Cuttings from semi-firm new growth

Applicant Name

Ian and Elaine Slade

Uses

As part of a mass planting or mixed in a shrubbery, or as a spectacular feature plant. Cut flowers.

Availability

Specialist native plant nurseries

ANBG Accession Numbers

ACC186, ACRA229, CBG8603192

NSL ID

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