Asteraceae
Osteospermum ecklonis
 |
Flower
Info: |
Petal
#
7+ |
 |
|
|
| Type
|
Categories
|
Useful
Parts |
Herb |
|
|
Look for
Cape Daisy on:
|
 |
|
| Other Names for this Plant |
‘Seikilrem,’ African Daisy, South African Daisy, Blue-eyed Daisy, Cape Marguerite, Blue-and-white Daisybush, Spanish Daisy
Native to South Africa
Their alternate (rarely opposite) leaves are green, but some variegated forms exist. The leaf form is lanceolate. The leaf margin is entire, but hardy types are toothed.
The daisy-like flowers consists of disc florets and ray florets, growing solitary at the end of branches or sometimes in inflorescences of terminal corymbose cymes. The disc florets are pseudo-bisexual and come in several colors such as blue, yellow and purple. The hardy types usually show a dark blue center in the disc until the yellow pollen is shed. The ray florets are female and are found diverse colors such as white, cream, pink, purple, mauve to yellow. Some cultivars have "spooned" petals such as "Pink Whirls". Many species flower a second time late summer, stimulated by the cooler night temperatures. Hardy types show profuse flowering in the spring, but they do not get a second flush of flowers.
|
|
Add to Compare Species
What's This?
|
 |
|
Star Order (Daisies) |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Main, Real, Two First-Leaves (Dicots) |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Real, Two First-Leaves (Dicots) |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Half Capsule Seed Division |
|
|
|
 |
|
Magnolia Division |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Seed Plants |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Multiple Spore Sub-Kingdom |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Multicellular Land Plants |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Cells with a Nucleus |
|
|
 |
|
|
Cultivation: Plants prefer a warm and sunny position and rich soil, although they tolerate poor soil, salt or drought well. Modern cultivars flower continuously when watered and fertilised well, and dead-heading is not necessary, because they do not set seed easily. If planted in a container, soil should be prevented from drying out completely. If they do, the plants will go into "sleep mode" and survive the period of drought, but they will abort their flower buds and not easily come back into flower. Moreover, roots are relatively susceptible to rotting if watered too profusely after the dry period.
Propagation: From seed. Propagation is mainly carried out by cuttings.
Cape Daisy
|
Cape Daisy
|
|
| Comment:
Cape Daisy, Osteospermum ecklonis |
Page Posts:
2
|
|
