Scientific Name: Pericallis x hybrida
Common Name: cineraria , Senetti daisy
Family Name: Asteraceae
Origin: Africa, Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C)
Plant Type: Annual (grown as), Flowering pot plant
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Mounded
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Bedding plant, Indoor plant
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Humus rich, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Palmate venation, Tomentose, Deltoid, Orbicular, Dentate, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Head (capitulum), White, Blue, Violet, Pink, Magenta, Red, Mar-Apr-May-Jun-Jul
Fruit: Achene, Silver, Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Basal leaves orbicular and palmately lobed; flower ray florets of most cultivars with white band towards center of head plus various colours on the outer part of each ray corolla.