Mexico-Low grow-Flower has multi, pointed, pinkish petals-yellow center

Discussion in 'Plants: Identification' started by zippy, Apr 30, 2007.

  1. zippy

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    Hi,
    This is growing alongside a street in Mexico. It looks familiar but not familiar enough for me to help someone else name it. Can anyone ID this? Thank You. Zippy
     

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    Hi again,

    The flower says, "Gazania", but the LEAVES are the question.

    The ones in my picture aren't the typical, more-or-less upright groupings of long, single leaves circling each flower stalk with each leaf coming up from the ground individually. My pic shows many and much smaller leaves that are instead attached to a stem coming from the ground. Is this some other type?

    I"ve googled all over the place and can't find this type flower partnered with these smaller, ground-hugging stems full of multiple leaves. Zippy
     
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    Probably an Arctotis hybrid.
     
  5. TonyR

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    It's a Gazania for sure.

    I'm rather puzzled as to how you could not find pictures of gazanias with deeply divided leaves springing from the base of the plant, as in your pic. I googled (image search) on "gazania" and got some like that on the first page, for example: http://irrecenvhort.ifas.ufl.edu/A&P/Pictures/Perennials/gazania.htm

    These modern garden gazanias are almost certainly hybrids, although many books and catalogs persist in calling them Gazania rigens. They come in quite a range of colors.
     
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    I think my problem is that where you're seeing many large "deeply divided leaves", I'm seeing many stems each containing very distinct, smaller individual leaves. zip
     

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