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Showy Podolepis

Podolepis jaceoides

Description:

Daisy with large leaves a couple of cm across, with a basal rosette and leafy stems, approx. 45 cm tall. Pic 3 shows the individual flowers which make up the composite 'daisy' flower. The inner flowers are disc florets and the outer (with the long petal) are ray florets. The ray florets of this species have distinctive finger like lobes. Pic 4 shows a fly? pollinating? the flower

Habitat:

Roadside patch of approx. 100 plants in Herb-rich Foothill Forest

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1 Comment

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 9 years ago

Wow what a flower. Showy is the perfect word.

Vinny
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Vinny

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Oct 28, 2014
Submitted on Oct 28, 2014

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