Australian Cultivar Registration Authority

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Babingtonia pluriflora 'White Cascade'

File Number

390

ACRA Field Book Number

237

Registration Date

14/09/1990

Application Received

01/02/1987

Family

Myrtaceae

Cultivar Name

Babingtonia pluriflora 'White Cascade'

Origin

Baeckea 'Wirreanda White Cascade' arose as a chance seedling of Baeckea virgata at Wirreanda Nursery in Ingleside, NSW. The plant was selected as worthy of further propagation due to its habit. The cultivar was first received by the Authority in February 1987. Registration applied for by Wirreanda Nursery, NSW. Originally registered as Baeckea 'Wirreanda White Cascade', but 'Wirreanda'is an inadmissable registered business name.

Characteristics

This cultivar is a low spreading shrub to 0.5 metres tall by up to 1.5 metres wide. The branchlets are pendulous and the new growth is an attractive coppery colour. The flowers are borne in the summer and autumn months. Diagnosis: Baeckea 'Wirreanda White Cascade' was selected initially because of its different flowering time and pendulous flowers. The fact that it flowers in autumn as well as summer was noted after the original selection. There are other forms of Baeckea virgata already registered as cultivars B. 'Howie's Sweet Midget' being a smaller cultivar with a more compact habit and much smaller and finer foliage. B. 'Howie's Feathertips' also has finer foliage but grows to a similar size than B. 'Wirreanda White Cascade'. The latter also flowers in autumn different from the former two cultivars.

Cultivation

The cultivar has proved to be drought resistant and frost hardy.

Publication

Payne, W.H. (1989), Garden Cultivars of Australian Plants. Australian Plants 15(121): 199

Colour Coding

N/A

Propagation

Cuttings from semi-firm new growth

Applicant Name

Wirreanda Nursery

Uses

As part of the shrubbery, screen planting or as a showy feature plant

Availability

Kuranga Nursery

ANBG Accession Numbers

ACC390; ACRA237; CBG8700692.

NSL ID

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