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Myoporum 'Monaro Marvel'

File Number

210

ACRA Field Book Number

210

Registration Date

19/03/1981

Application Received

12/09/1980

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Cultivar Name

Myoporum 'Monaro Marvel'

Origin

Myoporum 'Monaro Marvel' is basically prostrate but mounds to plus/minus 30cm tall in the centre of the shrub. It is a form selected in 1977 from a cultivated plant growing in Geelong, Victoria. The cultivar was selected by Monaro Nursery. Cultivar received by the Authority 12 September 1980. The applicant: is Anne Rehwinkel, Monaro Nursery, Wallaroo Road, Hall 2618.

Characteristics

This cultivar will grow to plus/minus 30cm tall in the centre by 2m in diameter after 3 years. It forms a dense, low shrub, becoming prostrate around the outer edges. The leaves are large, and are plus/minus 6cm long by plus/minus 8cm wide. Diagnosis: This cultivar may be a narrow leafed form of M. acuminatum. A similar form is in cultivation in Adelaide, but that form grows to 60cm high and does not form a mound but merely spreads. Myoporum 'Monaro Marvel' may be distinguished by its central upright mounding habit and very large leaves.

Cultivation

This cultivar has proven very drought and frost hardy in Canberra.

Publication

Payne, W.H. (1982), Garden Cultivars of Australian Plants. Australian Plants 11(91): 224; Eason, D.L. (1992), Norwood Plant Reference Book: 583

Colour Coding

RHS Colour Chart 1966.petals: white group 155C.

Propagation

Cuttings

Applicant Name

Anne Rehwinkel

Uses

As part of a mass planting or mixed in a shrubbery.

Availability

Specialist native plant nurseries

ANBG Accession Numbers

ACC210; CBG8006065.

NSL ID

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