Australian Natives
All of these plants will also appear in one of the Camden Park catalogue categories.
Lysiphyllum carronii (F.Muell.) Pedley
Tall shrub or small tree with ovate, two-pinnate leaves and short racemes of rusty brown flowers. To 10m. [NSW Flora On Line].
Lysiphyllum hookeri (F.Muell.) Pedley
Frost-tender, small, semi-deciduous tree with two-lobed leaves, and white flowers with prominent red stamens, to 7cm across. [Wrigley].
Lythrum salicaria ‘Roseum Superbum’
A cultivar of Lythrum salicaria L. A fully hardy, clump-forming perennial with star-shaped, bright purple-pink flowers in spike-like racemes in summer to autumn. To 45cm. The variety roseum superbum has larger rose-coloured flowers. [RHSE, Hortus].
Melia azedarach L.
Frost tender, fast-growing, many-branched, spreading, deciduous tree with fissured grey bark, pinnate leaves, to 60cm long, with many, toothed leaflets, and a profusion of star-shaped, fragrant, lilac flowers, to 2cm across, in arching panicles from spring to summer, followed by yellow fruit. To 15m. [RHSE, Hilliers’].
Microtis unifolia (Forst.f.) Reichb.f.
Terrestrial orchid with a solitary leaf, sheathed for about two thirds of its length, and a terminal spike bearing numerous very small greenish flowers. To 40cm. Beadle describes 4 other species which are sometimes regarded as variants of Microtis unifolia. [Jones, FNSW, Beadle].
Mirbelia speciosa Sieb. ex DC.
Half hardy, erect, bushy, evergreen shrub with narrow, linear leaves and axillarey or terminal spikes of reddish-purple, pea-like flowers in winter. To 1m. [RHSD, FNSW, Beadle].
Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack var. exotica (L.) M.R.Almeida
Frost tender shrub or small tree with pinnate leaves and usually terminal corymbs of small, fragrant, white flowers several times a year. To 7.5m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Myoporum montanum R.Br.
Glabrous shrub or small tree with finely fissured bark, leaves elliptic to lance-shaped, flowers white, spotted purple in winter to summer, followed by purple fruit. To 8m. [FNSW].
Nothofagus cunninghamii Oerst.
Frost hardy, conical, evergreen tree with slender, downy shoots and roughly ovate, blunt-toothed leaves, to 2cm long, bronze-red in summer when young. To 12m, but much larger in the wild. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Nymphaea gigantea Hook.
Aquatic perennial with rounded, toothed leaves and star-shaped blue flowers, to 30cm across. [RHSE, Hortus, FNSW].
Olearia argyrophylla (Labill.) F.Muell. ex Benth.
Frost tender, large shrub or small tree with large, silvery, elliptic leaves, to 15cm, unevenly toothed, and numerous, large, drooping, terminal corymbs of creamy, daisy-like flowers in spring and summer. To 10m. [RHSD, FNSW,
Orchid species unidentified no.3
An unidentified species, a ground orchid.
Pandorea jasminoides (Lindl.) K. Schum.
Frost tender, vigorous twining climber with wiry, branching stems, pinnate leaves, composed of 5-9 leaflets, to 5cm long, and freely-produced cyme-like panicles of tubular white flowers, flushed crimson in the throat, from spring to summer. To 5m or more. [RHSE, Hilliers’, Hortus].
Pandorea jasminoides (Lindl.) K. Schum. var. alba
See Pandorea jasminoides (Lindl.) K. Schum. for discussion of the species. The variety alba has pure white, somewhat larger flowers. [RHSE]. There are a number of named cultivars.
Pandorea pandorana (Andr.) Steenis
The designation ‘sp. nova’ suggests an Australian plant and was often used in this sense by Macarthur. The only other Australian bignonia known at the time is Pandorea pandorana (Andr.) Steenis, although it seems unlikely that William Macarthur would have been unaware of this plant as it first botanically described in 1800 and introduced to Europe even earlier. It is a climber with creamish-white flowers with a purplish throat, native to the Sydney area. [FNSW, Beadle].
