Euryops chrysanthemoides (DC.) B. Nord.

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5, Monmouth Rd, Emerald Hill, Harare

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Synonyms:	Gamolepis chrysanthemoides DC.
Common names:	African bush daisy (English) Honey daisy (English)
Frequency:	Rare as a naturalised escape.
Status:	Introduced
Description:	Shrub, attaining 2 m. Leaves 4-7 × 1-2 cm, alternate, clustered more densely towards the tips of the branches, pinnatifid, the lobes curving outwards and apiculate, often becoming narrower and smaller towards the leaf base. Capitula on furrowed peduncles, 10-15 cm. Phyllaries 5-6 mm, 14-15, the free part ovate-acuminate to subcircular. Ligules yellow. Flowering capitula c.4 cm in diameter. Achenes c.5 × 2 mm, narrowly obovoid, glabrous, black when mature. Pappus 0.
Notes:	Very commonly cultivated shrub in Zimbabwe, seeding freely within gardens. This has been recorded as an escape from a wet ditch in Alexandra Park, Harare and also as a colonist of disturbed forest areas near Penhalonga.
Derivation of specific name:	chrysanthemoides: resembling the genus Chrysanthemum
Habitat:	Naturalised in a wet ditch in Harare and in a disturbed forest edge in the Eastern Highlands
Altitude range: (metres)	1500 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Native in Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Zimbabwe distribution:	C
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Literature:	Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 25.

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