Botanical Name: Senecio hybridus
Common Name: Cineraria
Type of Plant: dicot: annual
Character winter annual

 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape dense, rounded compact plant with large, lush leaves and large terminal clusters of daisy-like flowers
Height 12" - 18"
Spread 12" - 18"
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors partial shade to shade
Soil prefers cool, moist, well amended soil
Hardiness tender
 
Morphology:
Leaves simple palmate, rough textured, to 6" wide, 6" long, coarsely dentate on margins
Flowers dense corymbs of daisy-like flowers in many colors - often with contrasting centers
Fruit small achene
 
Propagation:
seed, achene
 
Usage:
gift plants, annual color under shaded patios, used in mass plantings, combine well with begonias, ferns, foliage plants
 
Landscape Care:
Watering needs frequent watering
Fertilizing balanced, half-strength, monthly
Pruning cut back hard after blooming; divide out new side shoots
Pests/Diseases leaf miner, snails and slugs, spider mites, stem rot
Special Conditions/Other often discarded after bloom; hybrids from England
 
Origin: hybrids
Family: Asteraceae

Notes:
 
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