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Metalasia aurea
Metalasia aurea, the Golden Blombush, is a small semi-shrub in the daisy family, native to the fynbos of the Cape. It is a fynbos species rather than a common garden plant, so grow it in full sun with very free-draining soil and little summer water.
Metalasia aurea is a flowering semi-shrub that is part of the Asteraceae family. The species is endemic to the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape. It occurs mainly in the Kouga Mountains and eastwards to Gqeberha. It also occurs in the Witteberg near Laingsburg and at Cape Infanta.
It grows on mountain slopes 0 - 1000 m and is part of the fynbos.
Pointy Blombush · Crooked Blombush · Metalasia agathosmoides · Metalasia albescens · Metalasia alfredii · Metalasia bodkinii · Shortleaf Blombush · Lime Blombush · Ball Blombush · Metalasia cephalotes · Dense Blombush · Metalasia confusa
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Metalasia aurea 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.
