Australian Cultivar Registration Authority

Description: Correa glabra 'Mt Barker Beauty', Taken: 23 January 2019, [HERBARIUM SPECIMEN] Copyright : Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR) holds copyright
Photographer: Palmer, R.

Description:
Photographer: Maria Hitchcock

Correa glabra var. turnbullii 'Mt Barker Beauty'

File Number

1299

ACRA Field Book Number

1299

Registration Date

29/01/2010

Application Received

12/06/2009

Family

Rutaceae

Cultivar Name

Correa glabra var. turnbullii 'Mt Barker Beauty'

Origin

Selected form collected at Mt Barker near Adelaide in SA. Named and registered with ACRA by Maria Hitchcock for the Correa Study Group.

Characteristics

A dense, compact shrub approximately 1.5m high x 1m wide, with glossy dark green foliage. Leaves are ovate to elliptical with obtuse tips, 50 mm x 18 mm in size, glabrous and glossy on top, pale green and glabrous below with defined venation. Leaves when crushed have a fruity smell. Flowers occur singly on 4 mm petioles at the ends of short branchlets. The tubular corolla is 27 mm x 6 mm in size, crimson for most of its length then grading to pale green on the tips, which are barely recurved. Stamens are exserted. Flowers gradually turn rose-pink as they age. The calyx is green, glabrous, square in cross-section with 4 minute teeth at the points where the petals are fused. Peak flowering is from Autumn to Winter with sporadic flowering throughout the year. Diagnosis: This variety was selected for its compact shape and glossy dark green foliage.

Cultivation

Correa ‘Mt Barker Beauty’ has been in cultivation for over 10 years and has proven to be a long-lived, very hardy fast-growing variety which withstands frost and drought conditions. It is very adaptable but generally prefers well-drained conditions in full sun to semi-shade. It requires very little maintanance and will form a neat shrub without pruning making it ideal for hedging and it may also be grown in a large tub. It would suit planting near pools. It appears to be resistant to most plant diseases and is highly bird attractive.

Publication

Hitchcock, M. (2010), Correas: Australian Plants for Waterwise Gardens: 115-116

Colour Coding

RHS Colour Chart 1995: Corolla 184C, 145B Mature leaves 136A

Propagation

Cuttings from semi-firm new growth

Applicant Name

Maria Hitchcock for the Correa Study Group

Uses

As part of a mass planting or mixed in a shrubbery, or as a feature plant. Attracts nectar feeding birds.

Availability

Specialist native plant nurseries

ANBG Accession Numbers

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NSL ID

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