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Aspilia kotschyi is a herbaceous annual daisy-family plant from tropical Africa, grown mainly as a wild or garden ornamental for its small dark red-purple flower heads. It needs warm, sunny, well-drained conditions and is rarely cultivated as a houseplant.
Aspilia kotschyi is a species of herbaceous plant in the family Asteraceae. It has ovate to narrowly lanceolate leaves and dark red-purple flowers commonly found Tropical Africa. It has a variety, Aspilia kotschyi var. alba which has white flowers.
Endemic to Tropical Africa, it occurs from Senegal eastwards towards Ethiopia and southwards up to Zimbabwe.
Aspilia africana · Aspilia lisowskiana · Aspilia mossambicensis · Aspilia · Chrysogonum perrieri
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aspilia kotschyi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
