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Giant Groundsel

Dendrosenecio kilimanjari

Giant Groundsel
Photo: Brendon, CC BY 2.5

Giant groundsel is a tree-like montane plant from the high slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, growing up to about 4,000 metres. It is not a houseplant and is rarely grown outside its native range, so care is mainly about cool, bright, frost-free conditions with good drainage.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately and let the top of the soil dry between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, gritty, humus-rich mix.
Temperature
10–20 °C; protect from frost and sustained heat above 30 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Tanzania (Mt. Kilimanjaro)
Climate
montane tropical

About

Dendrosenecio kilimanjari is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a giant groundsel found on Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, below 4,000 metres (13,000 ft).

Other Dendrosenecio plants

Dendrosenecio keniensis · Giant Groundsels

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dendrosenecio kilimanjari 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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