Senecio juniperinus L.F.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Senecio

Characteristics

Erect or sprawling shrublet, with softly woody, thinly or thickly white-felted stems, up to 1 m tall. Leaves linear lanceolate, mostly 15-40 x 1-3 mm, hard and leathery, pungent, sessile, glabrescent and glossy above, but thickly felted beneath, with margins strongly revolute and sometimes with a few scattered teeth or lobes, typically with a small sharp tooth on each side at base. Flowerheads in lax terminal corymbs, ultimate pedicels sparsely scaly and mostly 10-40 mm long, radiate, yellow; involucre campanulate, 4-5 mm diam., bracts with thickened margins and black tips, 15-20, ± 5 x 1 mm, bracteoles numerous, imbricate, subulate and black-tipped.
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Like S. ilicifolius but leaves narrow, not or hardly toothed and margins strongly revolute.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 10 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Senecio juniperinus world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:245769-1
WFO ID wfo-0000080644
COL ID 6YGRQ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Senecio cruciatus Senecio juniperinus Senecio polyanthemus Senecio polyanthemus var. polyanthemus Senecio juniperinus var. juniperinus

Lower taxons

Senecio juniperinus var. epitrachys