Senecio tamoides
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 Creeping groundsel
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| Senecio tamoides DC. (1838)[1][2] |
Senecio tamoides or also known as Canary creeper (a name it shares with Senecio deltoideus Less.[3]) is a climbing member of the genus Senecio of the family Asteraceae.[4]
[edit] Description
Scrambling[5] mostly evergreen[6] perennial, [5] creeping along the ground or climbing several meters into the trees.[4]
Stems and leaves: Slender and hairless stems, up to 2 metres (6.6 ft) tall.[5]
Bright green leaves shaped like many ivy[6] with broad, oval, and fleshy leaf surfaces 4 centimetres (1.6 in) long and 7 centimetres (2.8 in) wide, coarsely toothed edges, leaf stalks 2 centimetres (0.79 in) to 5 centimetres (2.0 in) long.[5]
Flowers: Inflorescence is a many-headed,[5] bright yellow,[6] and the flowering spike grows to have a flat top. The flower heads are cylindrical, about 3 millimetres (0.12 in) in diameter; surrounded with a whorl of five to seven bracts, 6 millimetres (0.24 in) to 7 millimetres (0.28 in) long which are surrounded by two to four smaller bracts or bracteoles. Three to six ray florets; each ligule approximately 1 centimetre (0.39 in) long; ten to twelve disc florets, 12 millimetres (0.47 in) to 15 millimetres (0.59 in) long.[5]
When cultivated in the gardens of the National Museums of Kenya, it has orange florets.[7]
Fruits and reproduction: Achenes about 2 millimetres (0.079 in) long, and not hairy; pappus 6 millimetres (0.24 in) to 7 millimetres (0.28 in) long. [5] It grows easily from stem cuttings.[6]
[edit] Distribution
Along evergreen forest margins at altitudes of 300 metres (980 ft) to 1,900 metres (6,200 ft)[4] and in moist gullies.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) (1985-11-07). Taxon: Senecio tamoides DC. (HTML). Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved on 2008-04-14.
- ^ Landcare Research. Senecio angulatus L.f. Suppl. 369 (1781) (HTML). Flora of New Zealand: Taxa. Landcare Research Allan Herbarium and New Zealand Plant Names Database. Retrieved on 2008-04-01.
- ^ Hyde, Mark; Bart Wursten. Senecio deltoideus Less. (HTML). Flora of Zimbabwe. Retrieved on 2008-04-14.
- ^ a b c Hyde, Mark; Bart Wursten. Senecio tamoides DC. (HTML). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants. Retrieved on 2008-04-14.
- ^ a b c d e f g h National Herbarium of New South Wales. PlantNET Senecio tamoides DC. (HTML). New South Wales FloraOnline. Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Retrieved on 2008-04-14.
- ^ a b c d Pienaar, Kristo (2003). "Climbers", Gardening with Indigenous Plants: Easy to Grow Southern African Plants (HTML), Struik, 96 pages. ISBN 1868723925. Retrieved on 2008-04-14.
- ^ Aluka. Entry for SENECIO tamoides DC. [family COMPOSITAE] (HTML). African Plants. Ithaka Harbors, Inc. Retrieved on 2008-04-14.
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