Senecio macroglossus

Senecio macroglossus 'Variegated'

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Common Names

Flowering Ivy (english)
Blomklimop (afrikaans)

Taxonomy

Family ASTERACEAE
Genus Senecio
Species macroglossus 'Variegated'
SA Plant Number
Basionym Senecio macroglossus 'Variegated'

Description

Senecio macroglossus ‘Variegated' is a fairly hardy, evergreen, slender, fast-growing creeper with attractive, glossy, ivy-like, semi-succulent foliage that is variegated with bright-green and pale-yellow.

The pale-yellow, daisy-like flowers are borne from March to July and attract insects to the garden.

Allow it to climb or use it as a beautiful groundcover. It is also beautiful planted in hanging baskets and containers.

It grows in sun or semi-shade, although doesn't do well in hot dry areas. Plant in well-composted, well-drained soil.

Size: 20cm as a ground cover / 2m as climber

Wildlife

Insects:

The flowers attract insects to the garden.

Uses

Distribution

Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu NatalNatural Habitat:

On forest margins, sandy to rocky places

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