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Chresta pacourinoides

Chresta pacourinoides
Photo: Mariana Guerra Staudt & Nádia Roque, CC BY 4.0

Chresta pacourinoides is a little-known daisy family (Asteraceae) species from northeastern Brazil, with almost no cultivation or horticultural literature. Little is documented about its care, so most fields below are unknown.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Native range
NE. Brazil

About

Chresta pacourinoides is a species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It was first described as Pithecoseris pacourinoides by A. P. de Candolle in 1836 with the name ascribed to Carl von Martius. Under this name, it was the only species in the genus Pithecoseris. Chresta pacourinoides is native to northeastern Brazil.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chresta pacourinoides 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.

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