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Photo by Frikkie Hall, Llifle.com.


Wild plant from Worldofsucculents.com.


The rather small rhizomes by Robert V. Blittersdorff, Africanplants.senckenberg.de.

Author: Augustin P. de Candolle, 1838
Family:  ASTERACEAE
Origin:  Angola, Congo, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Soil:  Mix
Water:  Medium
Sun:  Maximum
Thickness:  4 Centimetres
Height:  30-100 Centimetres
Flower:  Yellow
Propagate:  Seeds/Cuttings/Rhizomes
Names:  False Nasturtium
Synonyms:  Senecio orbicularis, Sond. 1865.
Senecio peltatus,
 DC. 1838.
Senecio peltiformis,
DC. 1838.
Senecio subpeltatus,
Steud. 1841.
Senecio oxyriifolius subsp. milanjianus, G.D.Rowley.
Senecio oxyriifolius
subsp. tropaeolifolius, G.D.Rowley.
('Senecio subnudus', DC. 1838 = Senecio cymbalarioides, H. Buek. 1840).

This member of the Asteraceae family was given this name by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1838. It is found in Angola, Congo, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre and Zimbabwe, growing in a well drained soil with some water and lots of sun. The caudex can grow to four centimetres in diameter, the entire plant to 30 or even 100 centimetres in height. The flowers are bright yellow.

The genera name means ‘old man’ from the Latin senex, and referring to the whitish grey, hairy pappus. The species name means ‘with leaves like Oxyria digyna’.


Flower from Pza.sanbi.org.