גזניה ריגנס ,פרח הסתדרות, Histadrut flower/Union flower
| Scientific name: | Gazania rigens (L.) Gaertn. | |
| Common name: | Treasure flower, Yellow Trailing Gazania | |
| Hebrew name: | גזניה ריגנס ,פרח הסתדרות, Histadrut flower/Union flower | |
| Family: | Compositae / Asteraceae, מורכבים |
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| Life form: | Short lived perennial | |
| Stems: | Up to 40 cm long; short creeping aboveground stems; simple or sparsely branched | |
| Leaves: | Elongated entire to deeply lobed leaves, green or greyish upper surfaces, whitish hairy undersides | |
| Inflorescence: | Solitary; a daisylike inflorescence composed of disk flowers in the centre surrounded by marginal ray flowers; Flowers do not open in low light; Require full sun for optimum bloom | |
| Flowers: | 7-10 cm flowers, disk flowers in the centre surrounded by marginal ray flowers, petals are usually bright orange to deep yellow with a black base marked with a white spot | |
| Fruits / pods: | Cypsela yellowish brown, densely covered with long, upwardly directed, straight hairs; pappus of 2 rows of linear, acuminate scales, hidden by the long hairs of the cypsela | |
| Flowering Period: | Spring, summer | |
| Chorotype: | South Africa |
Derivation of the botanical name: Gazania, named in honor for Theodore of Gaza (1398 - 1478), a Greek-born Italian scholar and translator of the works of Theophrastus from Greek into Latin. rigens, rigid, stiff.
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