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 species Telopea mongaensis is commonly known as Braidwood Waratah and Monga Waratah. Pictured here is a hybrid cross…
This Waratah hybrid occurred spontaneously in the National Botanic Garden, Canberra, when these species, Telopea mongaensis and speciosissima were grown next to one another.
A cross between these two species was made at the Australian National Botanic Garden (ANBG) in Canberra and registered in 1974 as ‘Braidwood Brilliant’. For this cross T. speciosissima, the New South Wales Waratah, was the pollen parent.
The reverse cross with T. mongaensis, The Braidwood Waratah, as the pollen parent has been named ‘Doug’s hybrid’. Our plants came to us from the ANBG in 1986 and were said to be the result of a spontaneous hybrid between a plant of each of these species. To me, they seem closer to T. mongaensis. After viewing both species in our collection you may form your own opinion.
Source: Australian National Botanic Gardens1, 2 , 3
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Tracheophytes
- Subphylum: Angiospermae
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- Order: Proteales
- Family: Proteaceae
- Subfamily: Proteoideae
- Tribe: Proteeae
- Genus: Protea
- Section: Protea
- Species: Protea cynaroides
Footnote & References
- Telopea ‘Braidwood Brilliant’, by Iain Dawson, Australian National Botanic Gardens, https://www.anbg.gov.au/telopea-braidwood-brilliant/telopea-braidwood-brilliant.html
- The Monga Waratah – Telopea mongaensis, Australian National Botanic Gardens, https://www.anbg.gov.au/telopea/telopea.mongaensis.html
- Mount Tomah Botanic Garden – ‘The accidental Waratah, original source url http://www.bluemts.com.au/mounttomah/weeklyplant/showPlant.asp?ID=251, article can be viewed https://web.archive.org/web/20080803095426/http://www.bluemts.com.au/mounttomah/weeklyplant/showPlant.asp?ID=251
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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