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Scalesia pedunculata
Scalesia pedunculata, the Galapagos daisy tree, is a slender tree of the daisy family native to the humid windward coasts of several Galapagos islands. It is a poor candidate for general cultivation, as it needs humid, cool-to-warm, moist conditions similar to its native cloud-influenced coasts.
Scalesia pedunculata is a flowering plant species in the family Asteraceae, growing to a slender tree (20m tall, DBH 20 cm), and found in dense stands on the humid windward coasts of the islands of Santa Cruz, San Cristobal, Santiago and Floreana in the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos archipelago lies in the southeast trade wind zone, so that climate and weather are dominated by the moisture-bearing trade winds and the topography of the islands. In general, the windward sides of the islands have a much higher precipitation than the leeward sides.
Scalesia pedunculata is regarded as vulnerable because of human encroachment, invasive introduced plant species such as Cedrela odorata and Psidium guajava, and grazing by introduced goats. Fires and cutting for fuel are also contributory problems, though the tree's wood is soft, with a large, pithy centre.
Radiate-headed scalesia · Scalesia aspera · Pinta Sunflower-tree · Heart-leafed scalesia · Scalesia crockeri · Daisy tree · Scalesia gordilloi · Heller's Scalesia · Scalesia incisa · Scalesia microcephala · Scalesia retroflexa · Daisy tree
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scalesia pedunculata 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.
