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Osteospermum ecklonis - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Osteospermum ecklonis - Flower head from below - Click to enlarge!

Flower head from below; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Osteospermum ecklonis - Branch - Click to enlarge!

Branch; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Osteospermum ecklonis - Upper and lower side of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower side of leaf; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Osteospermum ecklonis - Plant close-up - Click to enlarge!

Plant close-up; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Osteospermum ecklonis - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 582
Date of entry: 20.06.2007
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Blue and white daisybush

German: Kapmargerite

Portuguese: Margarida-do-cabo

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2654)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2567)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2163)

      Order: Asterales (223)

        Family: Asteraceae (222)(family description)

          Genus: Osteospermum (1)

            Epithet: ecklonis (DC.) Norl. (1)

Synonym: Dimorphotheca ecklonis DC.

ecklonis => after Dr. Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795-1868)

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: purple, violet, pink, beige, white

External links

Check for Osteospermum ecklonis at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

  • [35] Barthlott,W. (1998): Dumonts große Pflanzenenzyklopädie. Dumont Verlag, Köln, Germany.

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