What is a Cultivar ?
The cultivar is the basic grouping, or taxon (= culton), for The rank of cultivar (ICNCP) is not the same as the categories variety or form in ICBN. A cultivar name can only be given to cultivated plants whose origin or selection is primarily due ... [... more]
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Geraniums for Garden Colour
If you want long lasting colour for your summer garden, you will find nothing that will do a better job than some cheerful geraniums (pelargonium cv. Zonal Hybrid Cultivar' Series). They are technically called pelargoniums but it is usually only ... [... more]
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Descriptions
Dampieras are attractive Australian native plants. The best known are from Western Australia and can be difficult to grow in the eastern states. Don Burke recently looked at a hardy cultivar which is native to the Glasshouse Mountains of ... [... more]
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Cannas bring a dash of drama to the garden and bold foliage forms like Canna 'Tropicanna' (Canna, Hybrid Cultivar, 'Tropicanna') and 'Tropicanna Gold' are especially flamboyant, with their decorative striped leaves and hot coloured blooms. Now is ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Seasonal Colour
There is always something in colour at Roma Street Parkland, and it is such a marvellous place to gather ideas on what is achievable in Queensland. The sculptured Azaleas (Rhododendron indica hybrid cultivar), are a real showstopper. Keeping them ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Euphorbia trigona
Native to Namibia, this small succulent, cactus-like shrub reaches 1-1.8m (3-6ft) and often finds use as a house plant. It has erect triangular branches that are dark green mottled with white and spines along its ridges. An attractive cultivar ... [... more]
Janine's Garden |
Zero Glyphosate Weed spray
If you want to bring life to shady settings it is hard to beat hostas, or Plantain Lily (Hosta Hybrid Cultivar).They grow beautifully on mass for foliage effect. There would be no short of 3 or 400 hundred varieties of hostas available to us - ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
HortNews - New Cultivar From Fuji Sent For Export
The first pick of a new variety of apple went into cartons for export this week. HASTINGS 17/05/2004 - The first pick of a new variety of apple went into cartons for export this week. The first 250 cartons of "fuji supreme" were packed for [... more]
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Australian Cultivar Registration Authority
Background information on the Australian Cultivar Registration Authority. A list of Registered Cultivars with links to their descriptions and photographs is maintained by ACRA. Under the 2004 International Code for Nomenclature of Cultivated ... [... more]
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Horticulture - ANBG
Information on the horticulture of Australian native plants. USA - one gardener's experience. Collecting, growing, and researching of Australian native plants, registered by the Australian Cultivar Registration Authority, ACRA. an educational ... [... more]
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How to construct a cultivar name.
The following is a simplified guide to naming new cultivars. Full details can be obtained from the International Code for Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants, 1995. The name takes the form of the denomination class in italics (= Genus name in ... [... more]
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List of Australian Registered Cultivars
List of Cultivars registered by the Australian Cultivar Registration Authority. See notes on the use of alternative styles of cultivar names at the end of this list. Hybrids do not have a species epithet between the Genus and 'Cultivar ... [... more]
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