Telopea mongaensis
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New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.
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'Telopea mongaensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Editorial Note
The text below is from W.J. Bean’s Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles (Bean 1981) where it appeared below the account for Telopea truncata.
† T. mongaensis Cheel – This is doubtfully distinct from T. oreades and is included in it by M. Crisp in the article accompanying the second plate in the Botanical Magazine. Plants at Wakehurst Place under this name are from seeds collected in the wild and were transferred to the garden from Kew. They agree with the original description in being shrubby and many-branched, and in their smaller, obscurely veined leaves. The type-locality lies some way to the north of the main range of T. oreades, and it may be that this waratah deserves recognition as a variety or subspecies. The Wakehurst plants, growing in a more sheltered position than T. oreades, were unharmed in the winter of 1985.
One of the characters attributed to T. mongaensis was the more or less lobed leaves. But this is shown in some degree by T. oreades and even, at least on cultivated plants, by T. truncata.
The third (or fourth) species of Telopea, the famous T. speciosissima, is definitely tender but has flowered in Cornwall.