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Gerbera

Gerbera L. is a genus of plants in the Asteraceae (Compositae)

Family. The first scientific description of a Gerbera was made by J. D. Hooker in Curtis’s

Botanical Magazine in 1889 when he described Gerbera jamesonii, a South African species

Also known as Transvaal daisy or Barberton daisy. Gerbera is also commonly known as the

African daisy.

The genus was named in honour of German botanist and medical doctor Traugott Gerber

(1710 — 1743) who travelled extensively in Russia and was a friend of Carl Linnaeus.

Gerbera sepals

Gerbera species are tufted, caulescent, perennial herbs, often with woolly crown, up to

80 cm high. Leaves are all in rosette, elliptical with entire or toothed margin or lobed,

Petiolate or with a petaloid base, pinnately veined, often

Leathery and felted beneath. Single to several flowering stems from each rosette bear

Bracteate or ebracteate, simple, one-headed inflorescence-capitulum.

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