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Mangle's Sunray

Rhodanthe manglesii

Also called Pink Sunray, Swan River Everlasting, Paper Daisy

Mangle's Sunray
Photo: knicolson, CC BY 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Rhodanthe manglesii is a herbaceous plant, a native of Western Australia, that was introduced and cultivated in England in 1834 from seeds collected by James Mangles. Common names for this daisy include pink sunray, silver bells, Australian strawflower, timeless rose or Mangles everlasting.

The flower head is yellow and surrounded by pink or white florets, this emerges from nodding, silver coloured, papery bracts that form bell-like buds during August to October in its native habitat. The habit is slender and erect, ranging in height from 0.1 to 0.6 metres, and the plant often carpets areas of sandy, clayey or loamy soils.

Other Rhodanthe plants

Chamomile Sunray · Rhodanthe battii · Rosy sunray · Flowery Sunray · Rhodanthe humboldtiana · Sunrays

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rhodanthe manglesii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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