Honey Bunch Wax -- Plant History


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Plant History

The Honey Bunch Wax* collection was bred and selected by a leading Australian nursery, A J Newports & Sons. Located in the foothills of the magnificent Blue Mountains surrounding Sydney, Newports’ is dedicated to bring new and unique plants to your home garden and living environments. The Honey Bunch Wax* plant collection is selected for its ability to produce a spectular long lasting flower display, holding for weeks within your home surrounds.

The Honey Bunch Wax* plant collection is a breed of the chamaelaucium spp (commonly known as the Wax Flower – for the flower’s wax-like appearance). British botanists discovered the Wax Flower early in the 18^th century surrounding the natural port of Gerald Town in Western Australia. The port, today known as Geraldton, offers tourists and locals’ alike vast stretches of pristine coastline of golden beaches and a wide variety of unique wildlife.




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From these exotic surroundings, plant lovers quickly recognized the value of the Wax Flower (chamaelaucium spp) in garden environments. This admiration by plant lovers has given rise to many names for this unique species. The Wax Flower is also known as the Australian Wax Flower, Geraldton Wax, Christmas Wax, Honey Wax* and now in a collection of hybrids especially breed for the home surroundings, the Honey Bunch Wax* collection.

The Wax Flower (chamaelaucium spp) has served a valuable role in the cut flower industry for decades. Admired for its wax-like appearance, the Wax Flower has demonstrated a long vase life and an excellent choice for a background flower in beautiful and exciting flower arrangements. For these reasons, cut flower varieties of the Wax Flower are in high demand at major flower producing centers such as Australia, New Zealand, California and Israel.




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	While the cut flower industry was the first to successfully market the Wax Flower, the nursery industry was quick to recognize the plant’s potential. Selective breeding developed new varieties of the Wax Flower to meet nursery industry needs. Many of these selections of the Wax Flower became popular landscaping plants, ideally suited for large open landscapes.

However in the 1980’s, living habits changed and large open landscapes became less common. Consumers wanted more compact plants and pot plants became more popular. Breeders and nurseries recognized the need for developing new selections of the Wax Flower to meet the new lifestyles of plant enthusiasts. Newports Nursery and CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) partnered up to develop a flowering pot and landscape plant version of the Wax Flower. In the United States, researchers from the USDA Research Station, Beltsville, Maryland lead the nursery industry in the understanding the potential and growing habits of more compact Wax Flower varieties. In the late 1990’s, The Plant People, a California based company, introduced the newly breed Honey Bunch Wax collection to United States wholesale and commercial markets.

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*Honey Bunch Wax, Noel, Cascade Brook and Cascade Jewel are trademarked and patented varieties