Australian Cultivar Registration Authority

Description:
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Grevillea 'Chatsworth Lorran'

File Number

467

ACRA Field Book Number

472

Registration Date

16/10/1992

Application Received

01/08/1990

Family

Proteaceae

Cultivar Name

Grevillea 'Chatsworth Lorran'

Origin

Grevillea 'Chatsworth Lorran' is said to be a hybrid involving G. thelemanniana and arose as a seedling in the garden of Mr Anthony Cini. The name is a combination of a suburb of Gympie, Queensland and the beginning of the personal names of the applicant and his wife. The cultivar was first received by the Authority in August 1990. Applicant Mr A. Cini, Chatsworth, Queensland.

Characteristics

This cultivar develops into a compact upright shrub to 1.5m by 1m. Leaves are approximately 50mm long, glossy dark green or slightly glaucus above, densely covered beneath with silky appressed hairs. Juvenile leaves are a lighter grey green in appearance and have a light covering of whitish and brown hairs above; leaf tips are lightly bronze tinged. The leaf margins are recurved and the leaf tip has a short, blunt point. The midrib is quite prominent beneath. Flowers are axillary or terminal on short branchlets, in spider-like racemes to 30mm diameter.. The perianth is a pale peach colour fading to cream near the tip and has a sparse covering of white hairs outside but is silky hairy within; The styleis up to 20mm long, bright pink with a yellowish tip, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs. Pedicels are light green in colour sparsely covered with white hairs. Diagnosis: G. thelemanniana: spreading prostrate or small shrub 0.3-2m by 1.5-4m; leaves to 35mm long, entire or with 3-4 lobes, covered with fawn coloured hairs below; racemes terminal on short branches, to 40mm long forming spidery clusters oif flowers; flowers pinkish red, pale to cream near the tip, glabrous on the outside, silky hairs inside; style red with agreen tip, glabrous, 25mm long; flowering time late winter to spring. Grevillea 'Chatsworth Lorran': Upright shrub 1.5m by 1m; leaves to 50mm long, entire or pinnate with up to five lobes (normally 3), appressed silky hairs below; racemes terminal on short branches, to 30mm long forming spidery clusters of flowers; flowers pale peach paling to cream near the tip, glabrous or with scattered hairs outside, silky hairs inside; style bright pink with a yellow tip, glabrous or nearly so, 20mm long; flowering time winter to early spring.

Cultivation

This cultivar is said to have medium tolerance to drought and medium frost tolerance. Propagation must be by vegetative means to preserve the cultivar form.

Publication

Australian Cultivar Registration Authority (1993), Australian Plant Cultivars. Australian Plants 17(134): 57

Colour Coding

RHS colour Chart 1966style: Red Group 54Astigma: Yellow Group 10Dperianth tube: Red Group 55A shading to Grey Group201A at the top near the anthers

Propagation

Cuttings from semi-firm new growth

Applicant Name

A. Cini

Uses

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

Availability

Unknown

ANBG Accession Numbers

ACC467, ACRA472, CBG9008052

NSL ID

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