Helichrysum cymosum (L.) D.Don

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Helichrysum

Characteristics

Straggling, thinly woolly shrub to 1 m. Leaves linear to elliptic, thinly silky or hairs skin-like above, white-felted beneath, margins slightly revolute. Flower heads disciform, sometimes discoid, crowded in terminal corymbs, cylindric, yellow, ± 3 x 1 mm, florets 6-20, ovary glabrous.
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Soil texture 5-6
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Usage

Uses medicinal
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Germination duration (days) 7 - 10
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
Germination luminosity light
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Images

Leaf

Helichrysum cymosum leaf picture by Maarten Vanhove (cc-by-sa)
Helichrysum cymosum leaf picture by Maarten Vanhove (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Helichrysum cymosum world distribution map, present in South Africa

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WFO ID wfo-0000089954
COL ID 3K6KR
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Synonyms

Helichrysum cymosum

Lower taxons

Helichrysum cymosum subsp. calvum Helichrysum cymosum subsp. cymosum