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Osteospermum

Dimorphotheca jucunda

Also called Cape Daisy, Jovial Rain Daisy, Trailing Pink Daisy

Osteospermum
Photo: 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0

Dimorphotheca jucunda, the delightful African daisy (also sold as Osteospermum jucundum), is a low trailing subshrub from South Africa with pink to mauve daisy flowers. It grows best in full sun and well-drained soil, and is a popular ground cover and container plant.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply, then let the top of the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, well-drained soil or cactus-style potting mix.
Temperature
10-30 °C; frost tender, protect below 0 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. Africa
Climate
subtropical

About

Dimorphotheca jucunda, the delightful African daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini, and introduced to Ireland and Tasmania. As its synonym Osteospermum jucundum, it and two of its cultivars, 'Blackthorn Seedling' and 'Langtrees' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Other Dimorphotheca plants

Cape marigold

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dimorphotheca jucunda 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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