Osteospermum
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Osteospermum (Greek, bone seed). Compositae. A group of South African yellow-flowered shrubs or subshrubs, scarcely in cultivation. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite: heads many-fld. radiate; pistillate fls. all rays; staminate fls. all disks, with abortive ovules and style; involucre in few rows, the scales free: achenes of the ray drupaceous or nut-like, thick, very hard, glabrous and without pappus.—Thirty-eight species are known, all S. African. In Flora Capensis 3:433-436, the whole group is monographed.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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