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African Daisy - Whirligig cultivar

Family Asteraceae, Osteospermum sp.

Photo by Andrea Lim
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Field Notes

Description:

Purple pinwheel shaped daisy to 6cms diameter.

Habitat:

Growing in landscaped garden beds in resort, Busselton, Western Australia

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Comments (21)

Wow amazing :) definitely should be added to http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/9071279
@ Karen and Malcolm, thank you for following it through. It was good to see the Noah Rangers on the ball! No problems at all. Cheers Andrea
Thank you for everyone's comments. Much appreciated!
Gorgeous!! I had those beauties in California, African Daisies, petals open like spoons, one of my favorite flower. Sadly they stated selling regular daisies as African Daisies in the Nurseries so people called them African daisies when they were not!
We only found the frangipaniOZ on the crystalgraphics page and Andrea Lim on the NatGeo page, that is why we investigated. Apologies for the confusion.
Natral is correct, it's an Osteospermum - a whirligig cultivar. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1923/
Thanks for clarifying Andrea! Apologies, we have to ask the question but we do unfortunately get people sharing images they have seen on the internet. Lovely photo BTW!
Let me know please if it another name, because I would like to know. Cheers Andrea
Yes it is definitely my photo. If you have seen it elsewhere by 'frangipaniOZ' that is me.

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