Blue Mountains Botanic Garden FloraBroadleaf Sugarbush (Protea eximia) Echium Pininana Gippsland Waratah (Telopea oreades) King Protea (Protea cynaroides) Leucospermum cuneiforme Little Prince (Protea cynaroides) Potberg Sugarbush (Protea aurea ssp potbergensis) Puya alpestris subsp zoellneri Tasmanian Waratah (Telopea truncata) Waratah (Telopea speciosissima) Waratah Hybrid (Telopea mongaensis x speciosissima) Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis)
The Waratah (Telopea speciosissima) is the best known of the genus Telopea. It is an erect slender shrub growing up to 3 m high in the wild.
The leaves are obovate to spoon-shaped, 8-25 cm long to 6 cm wide, leathery, strongly veined appearance, with toothed like edge.
The flower (that occur in springs) are red, up t0 250 per dome-shaped head, growing up to 15 cm in diameter and surrounded by a conspicuous ring of bright red bracts, that grow up to 9 cm long.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Tracheophytes
- Class: Equisetopsida
- Subclass: Magnoliidae
- Superorder: Proteanae
- Order: Proteales
- Family: Proteaceae
- Genus: Telopea
- Species: Telopea speciosissima
- Unranked:
- Telopea ‘Burgundy’
- Telopea ‘Canberry Coronet’
- Telopea ‘Canberry Gem’
- Telopea ‘Corroboree’
- Telopea ‘Crimson Lady’
- Telopea ‘Doug’s Hybrid’
- Telopea ‘FITZDIG’
- Telopea ‘FITZEGI’
- Telopea ‘FITZGEO’
- Telopea ‘FITZMAL’
- Telopea ‘FITZSNO’
- Telopea ‘Gembrook’
- Telopea ‘Shady Lady Red’
- Telopea ‘Shady Lady’
- Telopea ‘T90-1-0-1’
- Telopea ‘Wirrimbirra White’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Brimstone Blush’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Brimstone Scarlet Starlet’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Cardinal’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Corrakee’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Corroboree’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Dreaming’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Fire and Brimstone’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Fire and Ice’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Fire ‘n Ice’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Fireglow’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Flaming Beacon’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Forest Fire’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Galaxy’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘In The Pink’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Levin Ena’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Levin Hilda’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Light Shade of Pale’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘No 359’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Olympic Flame’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Olympic Torch’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Parrys Dream’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Pink Zinc’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Popes Cardinal’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Popes Weromba Cardinal’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Red Ned’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Scarlet Flame’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Shade of Pale’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Shady Lady White’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Songlines’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Sunburst’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Sunflare’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘White’
- Telopea speciosissima ‘Wirrimbirra White’
(at time of writing (2022) there are 50 unranked cultivars/varieties)
Source: Atlas of Living Australia1
Footnote & References
- Telopea speciosissima (Sm.) R.Br., Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51293559
Blue Mountains Botanic Garden FloraBroadleaf Sugarbush (Protea eximia) Echium Pininana Gippsland Waratah (Telopea oreades) King Protea (Protea cynaroides) Leucospermum cuneiforme Little Prince (Protea cynaroides) Potberg Sugarbush (Protea aurea ssp potbergensis) Puya alpestris subsp zoellneri Tasmanian Waratah (Telopea truncata) Waratah (Telopea speciosissima) Waratah Hybrid (Telopea mongaensis x speciosissima) Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis)
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